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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a whip; long, thin, and flexible, or flagellatory..
"I wanted the regular announcement of the blocks as they come along to have the whiplike quality of time," says the poetic dramatist, who as an author having his most complex play tried out for only three weeks prior to its Broadway opening is supremely conscious of the flagellative relentlessness of clock and calendar.
Use whiplike when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Whiplike means Resembling or characteristic of a whip; long, thin, and flexible, or flagellatory..
Common synonyms include whippy, flagellate, flagellated.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"I wanted the regular announcement of the blocks as they come along to have the whiplike quality of time," says the poetic dramatist, who as an author having his most complex play tried out for only three weeks prior to its Broadway opening is supremely conscious of the flagellative relentlessness of clock and calendar.
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