Adjective: sportslike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sportslike |
| Superlative | most sportslike |
Sample Sentences
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Michael Pollan argues that sensationalized, sportslike food shows discourage spectators from actually cooking themselves, but I, a 20-year-old college student, beg to differ. [2009 August 16, “Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like sportslike
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 sports + -like.