Adjective: xylophonelike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more xylophonelike |
| Superlative | most xylophonelike |
Sample Sentences
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The lyrics were in several West African languages, and the lineup paired African instruments — the kora (the djelis’ 21-string harp-lute), the xylophonelike balafon, the small banjolike ngoni and the booming djembe (hand drum) — with modern counterparts: electric guitar, bass, keyboard and trap drums. [2007 April 2, Jon Pareles, “A Musical Coalition That Raises the Roof”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like xylophonelike
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 xylophone + -like.