"lawlike" meaning in All languages combined

See lawlike on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more lawlike [comparative], most lawlike [superlative]
Etymology: law + -like Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|law|like}} law + -like Head templates: {{en-adj}} lawlike (comparative more lawlike, superlative most lawlike)
  1. Having characteristics of a law. Synonyms: law-like
    Sense id: en-lawlike-en-adj-QAeW9x0Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -like

Download JSON data for lawlike meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -like",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "law + -like",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lawlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lawlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lawlike (comparative more lawlike, superlative most lawlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -like",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime, page 185",
          "text": "First there is the rather enormous inductive leap made by Newton when he assumes that the lawlike connection between accelerated motions and inertial forces holds at every place, at every time, and in the same manner always.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having characteristics of a law."
      ],
      "id": "en-lawlike-en-adj-QAeW9x0Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "law-like"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawlike"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -like",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "law + -like",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lawlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lawlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lawlike (comparative more lawlike, superlative most lawlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -like",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Lawrence Sklar, Space, Time, and Spacetime, page 185",
          "text": "First there is the rather enormous inductive leap made by Newton when he assumes that the lawlike connection between accelerated motions and inertial forces holds at every place, at every time, and in the same manner always.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having characteristics of a law."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "law-like"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lawlike"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.