blocklike

Having an oblong shape

Adjective

  1. Having an oblong shape
    • […] the dim, tall, blocklike shadows behind the trees make it start to look, weirdly, as if this were Central Park as painted by Vuillard. - 2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at...

Origin

Etymology tree English block Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English blocklike From block + -like.

Forms

more blocklike most blocklike block-like