What does novelish mean?
Novelish means Resembling or characteristic of a novel..
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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).
Use novelish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Novelish means Resembling or characteristic of a novel..
Common synonyms include novelesque, novellike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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[…]
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