Adjective: formlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more formlike |
| Superlative | most formlike |
Sample Sentences
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Terse, snappy, forceful letters should be used, rather than long, verbose, repetitive, unimpressive, formlike letters. [1919, Charles Albert Meyer, Mercantile Credits and Collections:]
Adjectives inflected like formlike
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 form + -like. Cognate with German förmlich (“formal, official”). See: German Adjectives '
förmlich'.
Verbs referencing "formlike"
German Adjectives
förmlich.