Adjective: appliancelike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more appliancelike |
| Superlative | most appliancelike |
Sample Sentences
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That led him and Mr. Rossmann, a former Apple executive who has started many Silicon Valley companies, to pursue the possibility of creating an appliancelike computer tailored to consumers who have no computer expertise. [2007 July 16, John Markoff, “A PC That Uses Less Energy, but Charges a Monthly Fee”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like appliancelike
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 appliance
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 appliancelike
11. From appliance + -like.