boatlike
3.9
Shaped like a boat
- adjective
- /ˈboʊtlaɪk/
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- The sculpture had a boatlike shape that gently curved at the bottom, evoking the image of a vessel gliding through water.
Examples
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She volunteered at the school board and spent time with her friends in the afternoons, and once even taught English in the evenings at the Latino Cultural Center in Nashville, driving the forty miles into the city in their boatlike Pontiac.
Fiction book (1999) -
Her design featured a boatlike appearance, resembling a sleek canoe ready to sail across the lake.
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The building's roof was crafted in a boatlike style, making it stand out against the skyline with its rounded edges.
Synonyms
boat-shaped
vsboatlike
1
4.7
A shape with curved sides like a small boat
is a general similarity in overall shape or appearance not limited to concavity
How Boatlike
boat-shaped
1
4.7
1
4.7
boatlike
3.9
Surface Forms
boatlike positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word boatlike comes from the simple English parts boat ('a small ship') and like ('similar to'). So, it just means 'similar to a boat' and is used for things that look or have the shape of a boat.