tigresslike

See also: tigress-like

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tigress +‎ -like.

Adjective

tigresslike (comparative more tigresslike, superlative most tigresslike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tigress.
    • 1990 January 26, Peter B. Flint, “Ava Gardner Is Dead at 67; Often Played Femme Fatale”, in The New York Times[1]:
      She brought a tigresslike seductiveness and a husky-voiced irreverence to roles as worldly, devil-may-care women, becoming adept at playing exotic vamps and free-spirited protagonists, []