cagelike

4.9

Something that has bars and makes people feel trapped

adjective
/ˈkeɪdʒˌlaɪk/

: similar a una jaula

Sunlight filtered through the cagelike bars of the old window.

Examples

This room feels cagelike!
The animal was kept in a cagelike enclosure for observation.
She felt trapped in the cagelike structure of her small apartment.
The room felt cagelike with its small windows.
The scientist built a small, cagelike structure to observe the behavior of the trapped insects.
The artist's sculpture was a cagelike design made of metal bars, illustrating confinement.
Her room felt cagelike with the thick curtains drawn tightly, blocking out any light.

Synonyms

prisonlike

vscagelike

7.5

Very strict and confining like a prison

focuses on being physically enclosed with visible bars rather than institutional control

Antonyms

open

∞ 1.0

Not closed so people or things can go through

unconfined

4.7

Without walls or edges, things move freely

How Enclosed

enclosed

1 3.5

cagelike

4.9

barred

4.1

open

18 1.0

Surface Forms

cagelike positive

Morphology

cagelike = cage (transparent) = cage + like

Standard adjectival formation: 'cage' + '-like' clearly means 'resembling a cage', easily inferred by learners.

Etymology

Cagelike comes from the simple word cage, a box for animals, plus the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So, cagelike describes something that is closed in or has bars, just like a cage.