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English
Etymology
From monkey + -like.
Adjective
monkeylike (comparative more monkeylike, superlative most monkeylike)
- Resembling or similar to a monkey.
- a monkeylike skull
- monkeylike curiosity
2008 March 4, John Noble Wilford, “One-Ounce Mississippian of 55.8 Million Years Ago”, in The New York Times:It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi.
Translations
similar to that of a monkey
See also
Adverb
monkeylike (not comparable)
- In the manner of a monkey.
Translations
in the manner of a monkey