clifflike
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- adjective
- /ˈklɪfˌlaɪk/
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acantilado
- The clifflike edges of the canyon made it clear that hikers should stay on the marked trails.
Examples
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The clifflike mountains were both breathtaking and intimidating as they towered over the valley.
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Wedge looked up, trying to spot some distant speck of color representing Coruscant's sky, but all he could see were clifflike building sides rising to infinity.
Fiction book (1998) -
I would like to suggest that this architectural iconography, although it may indeed appear clifflike, may also present some references to the function of this institution in its role as a formidable participant on a worldwide stage, perhaps unconsciously on the part of the architect.
Academic text (2004) -
Children love climbing the clifflike rock formations at the park, but they need to be careful.
Synonyms
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Having a very sharp slope or almost vertical angle
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A very steep slope like a cliff that is dangerous to climb
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So steep that it drops almost straight down
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A thing with sides that rise almost straight up
Full of steep cliffs and rocky edges
A place with steep rock sides along its edge
Very steep and high, like the edge of a cliff
Antonyms
How Steep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clifflike comes from the simple word cliff, which means 'a steep rock or high edge', and the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So, clifflike describes something that is 'like a cliff', very steep or high.