monkeylike

/mˈʌŋkilˌaɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

adv

In the manner of a monkey.

"a monkeylike skull"
"monkeylike curiosity"
"It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi."

Etymology tree English monkey Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English monkeylike From monkey + -like.

more monkeylike (comparative) most monkeylike (superlative) monkey-like (alternative)

simian

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How do you pronounce monkeylike?

The recorded pronunciation is /mˈʌŋkilˌaɪk/.

What does monkeylike mean?

Resembling or similar to a monkey.

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