monkeylike

See also: monkey-like

English

Etymology

From monkey +‎ -like.

Adjective

monkeylike (comparative more monkeylike, superlative most monkeylike)

  1. 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[1]:
      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.

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Adverb

monkeylike (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of a monkey.

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