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manlike

[ man-lahyk ]

adjective

  1. resembling a human being; anthropoid.
  2. belonging or proper to a man; manly:

    manlike fortitude.



manlike

/ ˈæˌɪ /

adjective

  1. resembling or befitting a man
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Other Word Forms

  • ll adverb
  • ln noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of manlike1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; man, -like
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Soon thereafter, the teenage Helen, who lives on a farm nearby, glimpses something manlike in the weeds, repeatedly lurching forward and falling over, then rising up again.

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Back at the Walmart museum, visitors were trying to work through their thoughts on the manlike figure in front of them.

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“I was reading on the Internet, and there are lots of people like you. Did you know you can take hormones so that your body, you know, doesn’t go all manlike?”

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The shadows rise, morphing into a manlike shape.

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Nonetheless, Dahl then told Arnold that the saucers were piloted by manlike beings made visible by A-bomb radiation.

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