Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

box-like

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English

Syllables: box--like
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of boxlike.

Example Sentences

"Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, […]"
"The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...]."

Etymology

From box + -like.

Inflected Forms

more box-like (comparative) most box-like (superlative)

Questions

What does box-like mean?: Alternative form of boxlike.
Where does box-like come from?: From box + -like.

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