shrine-like
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6.1
Very quiet and respectful, like a place for remembering someone
- adjective
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sagrado
- The shrine-like atmosphere of the library made it the perfect place for studying.
Examples
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She was a loud disruption of the house's shrine-like, muted atmosphere.
Fiction book (1991) -
The garden features a shrine-like structure that invites quiet contemplation.
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Visitors often express a sense of peace in the shrine-like surroundings of the ancient temple.
Synonyms
sacred
vsshrine-like
158
4.3
People respect and treat it as very important
emphasizes a small quiet reverent atmosphere rather than broad devotion
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7.7
People treat a place or thing as very holy and deserving great respect
describes resemblance to a quiet reverent place rather than formal status
churchlike
vsshrine-like
1
4.4
Having the look or quiet feeling of a church
highlights intimate hushed reverent atmosphere rather than building features
How Shrine-Like
Surface Forms
shrine-like positive
Morphology
Etymology
Shrine-like comes from shrine, a word that once meant a special 'box' for holy things and later came to mean a sacred place, and the ending -like means 'similar to'. So shrine-like describes something 'similar to' a shrine: quiet, sacred, and full of respect.