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alienlike

adj

Etymology

From alien + -like.

  1. derived from *h₂élyos✻
  2. derived from alius — “other”
  3. derived from aliēnus — “belonging to someone else”, later “exotic, foreign”
  4. derived from alien
  5. inherited from alien
  6. suffixed as alienlike — “alien + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an alien.

    • On the screen there was this creepy image: a giant head, mouth agape, with clawing hands reaching out of it, alienlike, toward the figure of a girl.

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