fishlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having some characteristics of a fish.
Example Sentences
- "fishlike scales"
- "fishlike eyes"
- "fishlike swimming ability"
- "fishlike smell"
- "His skin was as scaly as those of some fish I'd seen. His nose was distorted—flattened from having been broken several times—and that enhanced his fishlike appearance."
- "The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or porpoiselike ichthyosaurs."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English fishlike From fish + -like.
Inflected Forms
more fishlike (comparative)
most fishlike (superlative)