Adjective: prisonlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more prisonlike |
| Superlative | most prisonlike |
Sample Sentences
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“The prisonlike conditions, this form of detention, is not necessary,” said Michelle Brané, who heads the detention and asylum program at the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. [2007 February 22, Rachel L. Swarns, “2 Groups Compare Immigrant Detention Centers to Prisons”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like prisonlike
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 prison
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 prisonlike
11. From prison + -like.