shacklike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a shack.
Example Sentences
- "In the city’s poor neighborhoods, survivors stood in knots in front of shuttered shacklike stores, vowing revenge and rehearsing in painful detail the attack on Monday that appears to have killed as many as 157 people protesting against the government at the September 28th Stadium here, according to opposition and human rights figures."
Etymology
From shack + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more shacklike (comparative)
most shacklike (superlative)