Adjective: girderlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more girderlike |
| Superlative | most girderlike |
Sample Sentences
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The astronauts exceeded a planned time of six and one-half hours as they labored to switch electrical and fluid lines from interim to permanent locations on the station’s girderlike supporting truss. [2007 February 1, Warren E. Leary, “Spacewalkers Start Switch of Station’s Cooling System”, in New York Times:]
Adjectives inflected like girderlike
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 girder + -like.