Novelish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Novelish is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a novel.
Meaning
Resembling or characteristic of a novel.
Example Sentences
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).
Synonyms for novelish
Depending on context, synonyms include novelesque, novellike.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include novellike, novelistic, novellalike, novelesque, novelettish, noveletty.
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