Adjective: quiltlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more quiltlike |
| Superlative | most quiltlike |
Sample Sentences
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Their quiltlike geometric abstractions, evoking Piet Mondrian and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, began to put a straight edge to the subway’s swoops and curlicues, its terra-cotta cornucopias and floral medallions. [2007 August 3, Randy Kennedy, “Underground Renaissance Man: Watch the Aesthetic Walls, Please”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like quiltlike
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 quilt
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 quiltlike
11. From quilt + -like.