Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jokelike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: joke-like
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a joke.

Example Sentences

"Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers."

Etymology

From joke + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: joke

Inflected Forms

more jokelike (comparative) most jokelike (superlative)

Questions

What does jokelike mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a joke.
Where does jokelike come from?: From joke + -like.

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