christlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of Jesus Christ or his works.
Example Sentences
- "Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character."
- "I always wanted him to get angrier, sharper. He was too Christlike — too decent (and I am convinced he was sincere) to convey the horror, to get across just how ugly it is on the inside of life with AIDS."
Etymology
From Christ + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Christlike (comparative)
most Christlike (superlative)