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bushlike

bushlike

4.0
Like land with wild plants and small trees
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌʃˌlaɪk/
translation icon : arbustivo
  • Look at that bushlike structure over there!

Examples

  • They built a small house in a bushlike setting, surrounded by wild plants and trees.

  • The landscape became increasingly bushlike as we traveled farther from the city.

  • Her stories often describe bushlike communities where people live close to nature.

  • The garden was filled with bushlike plants.

  • The garden was filled with bushlike plants that provided privacy from the road.

  • She admired the bushlike shrubs that surrounded the cottage in the countryside.

  • In the wild, the landscape was dotted with various bushlike formations that attracted wildlife.

Synonyms

bushy
vsbushlike
22 1.3

Thick and full, spreading like a small bush, often for hair or tails

evokes the wild or rural character rather than just fullness of growth

Antonyms

urban
571 2.5

About a city or town rather than the countryside

man-made
27 3.4

Made by people rather than happening in nature

How Bushlike

overgrown
52 3.4
bushy
22 1.3
bushlike
4.0
brushy
1 3.8
scrubby
5 5.3
sparse
31 5.0

Surface Forms

bushlike positive

Morphology

bushlike = bush (transparent) = bush + like

Direct adjectival formation from 'bush' + '-like' meaning 'resembling' or 'characteristic of' a bush or the bush; sense extension to rural areas is predictable.

Etymology

Bushlike comes from bush ('small tree' or 'wild area') and the ending -like ('similar to'). So it means 'similar to a bush' or 'like the wild countryside'.