Adjective: microwavelike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more microwavelike |
| Superlative | most microwavelike |
Sample Sentences
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The hospitals’ staffs were using a microwavelike box to sanitize two N95 masks at a time using ultraviolet light — zapping them for one minute before having to turn them over and zap them again. [2020 April 23, Michele Munz, “Maplewood company designs UV-light trailer to sanitize masks for reuse by health workers”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:]
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It’s simple enough: Each partner must rip out a fingernail, wait a few minutes for a microwavelike contraption to inspect it, and voilà! A result. [2023 November 7, Shirley Li, “It’s a Miracle Anyone Stays in Love”, in The Atlantic:]
Adjectives inflected like microwavelike
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 microwave + -like.