Adjective: stemlike
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more stemlike |
| Superlative | most stemlike |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like stemlike
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 stem
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 stemlike
11. From stem + -like.