English

Suffix

-like

1. Having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).

   childlike

   snake-like

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

Synonyms

Note: the suffixes below cannot necessarily replace "-like", but are also used to form words having the same sense as words formed using "-like".

• -ish, -ly, -oid, -y

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Usage notes

• In British usage, a hyphen is almost always used, while in American usage, the suffix is sometimes joined to the noun without a hyphen.