Adjective: mittenlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mittenlike |
| Superlative | most mittenlike |
Sample Sentences
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But the doctors had to amputate the top bone of the two bones in each thumb and the top two of the three bones in each of the other eight fingers, leaving her with mittenlike hands. [1988 April 22, Steve Bogira, “A Fire in the Family”, in Chicago Reader:]
Adjectives inflected like mittenlike
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
1. Etymology tree
2. English mitten
3. Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
5. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *-līk
7. Old English -līċ
8. Middle English -like
9. English -like
10. English mittenlike
11. From mitten + -like.