monkeylike

Resembling or similar to a monkey.

Adjective

  1. Resembling or similar to a monkey.
    • a monkeylike skull
    • monkeylike curiosity
    • 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...

    Synonyms: monkeyish

Origin

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

Forms

more monkeylike most monkeylike

Related

simian

Adverb

  1. In the manner of a monkey.