Adjective: preacherlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more preacherlike |
| Superlative | most preacherlike |
Sample Sentences
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The preacherlike man asked his friend, who had become silent. [1988 May 13, Rod McCollom, “Fund-Raiser”, in Chicago Reader:]
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Looking like no stranger to hard work, Jim was tall and lean with a deep, resonant, preacherlike voice and manner. [2013, K. T. Berger, Where the Road and the Sky Collide, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like preacherlike
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 preacher + -like.