Adjective: raptorlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more raptorlike |
| Superlative | most raptorlike |
Sample Sentences
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Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of South Bohemia described transactions among great grey shrikes, elegant raptorlike birds with silver capes, white bellies and black tails that, like 90 percent of bird species, form pair bonds to breed. [2008 March 18, Natalie Angier, “In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like raptorlike
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From raptor + -like.