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cagelike

cagelike

4.9
Something that has bars and makes people feel trapped
  • adjective
  • /ˈkeɪdʒˌlaɪk/
translation icon : 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.