Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

marblelike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mar-ble-like
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling marble stone.

adj

Resembling a marble or marbles.

Example Sentences

"Meanwhile, Ann Bartek's semiabstract set--a mostly bare marblelike playing area decorated with straight and jagged stripes suggesting telephone wires—reminds us that this is a story steeped in a world-changing technological revolution."
"Physicists back then explained the durability of matter by assuming that it was made up of identical, indestructible, marblelike atoms."
"They were diverse morphologically--rods, spirals, marblelike cells--but they all had the same kind of biochemistry."

Etymology

From marble + -like.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: marble

Inflected Forms

more marblelike (comparative) most marblelike (superlative)

Synonyms

marmoreal

Questions

What does marblelike mean?: Resembling marble stone.
Where does marblelike come from?: From marble + -like.

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