parklike
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- adjective
- /ˈpɑrkˌlaɪk/
- The Elf-Eater was somewhere ahead of her, invisible in the smoke that drifted across the parklike expanse that had once been the great plaza of Chrysalis.
- parklike setting
- parklike grounds
Examples
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The move to establish new cemeteries on the outskirts of cities and to create and maintain "rural" parklike settings dates from the early nineteenth century.
Academic text (2006) -
The adults, meanwhile, gathered any weapons that they could find and began to assemble in the city's parklike grand plaza.
Fiction book (1992) -
In Jakarta, a second node developed around a large, parklike military training ground known as the Koningsplein, about three kilometers south of the original city.
Academic text (1993) -
With increased distance, industrial sites within Calumet are less in the park but still parklike, and contemporary or corporate-looking architecture such as the big-box store and gas stations is slightly in the park.
Academic text (2011) -
"If only they had died earlier?" I'd thought that as we drove upstate, and if only the company in this company town had not left for cheap labor, then my great-grandfather's house with its parklike acres would still be intact.
Fiction book (2002) -
A wide pebbled path lined with overgrown borders and inviting park benches, without the parklike promise of pleasure and relaxation, but rather the zoolike reminder that one is here on a mission; there is something to see here, a fixed route to be taken.
Fiction book (1998) -
The real shrine was an esplanade enclosed by the mounds of two more suburban hills, a parklike place full of shrubs, statuary, and garden beds that must have been something in the spring.
Fiction book (1993) -
The park's spacious trails and greenery create a parklike atmosphere that attracts families on weekends.
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Their backyard is transformed into a parklike retreat with flowers, benches, and plenty of trees.
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The newly landscaped area features open lawns and walking paths, making it a parklike space for community gatherings.
Synonyms
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Smelling or tasting like a field of grass and wildflowers
Antonyms
How Park-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word parklike is made of park and -like, where park means 'a green public area' and -like means 'similar to'. So parklike means 'similar to a park', and we use it for places that are open, green, and pleasant.