Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mantislike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: man-tis-like
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a mantis.

Example Sentences

"She had large round eyeglasses and a radial distribution of face wrinkles which together gave a mantislike impression."

Etymology

From mantis + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mantis

Inflected Forms

more mantislike (comparative) most mantislike (superlative)

Questions

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

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