novelish

adj

Etymology

From novel + -ish. Piecewise doublet of novelesque.

  1. derived from novellus
  2. derived from novel
  3. inherited from novel
  4. suffixed as novelish — “novel + ish

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a novel.

    • Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]
    • Two such books dawned in me when I first saw our post-encephalitic patients: Compulsion and Constraint (a study of subcortical disorders and mechanisms) and People of the Abyss (a novelish, Jack Londonish book).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for novelish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA