"Learlike" meaning in English

See Learlike in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more Learlike [comparative], most Learlike [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} Learlike (comparative more Learlike, superlative most Learlike)
  1. Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.
    Sense id: en-Learlike-en-adj-qKCd0I70 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSONL data for Learlike meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Learlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Learlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Learlike (comparative more Learlike, superlative most Learlike)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 7, in The Diamond, and the Pearl, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 144",
          "text": "He even declined their company, and went down to the beach alone for his daily walk, to ponder on the event;—wondering whether it excited as much sensation in the family as when, in his early days of wedded life, an heir to the barony of Hartingham was looked for in his own household; and feeling perhaps a Learlike sympathy with the elements raging around him, and bringing the billowy surges to his feet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, John Irving, chapter 6, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 265",
          "text": "[…] that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in the Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Rafe Esquith, chapter 8, in There Are No Shortcuts, New York: Pantheon, page 118",
          "text": "Of course, no one in the system cares, so his anger is Learlike, screaming to the deaf heavens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear."
      ],
      "id": "en-Learlike-en-adj-qKCd0I70",
      "links": [
        [
          "eponymous",
          "eponymous"
        ],
        [
          "protagonist",
          "protagonist"
        ],
        [
          "Shakespearean",
          "Shakespearean"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Learlike"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Learlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Learlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Learlike (comparative more Learlike, superlative most Learlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 7, in The Diamond, and the Pearl, volume 2, London: Henry Colburn, page 144",
          "text": "He even declined their company, and went down to the beach alone for his daily walk, to ponder on the event;—wondering whether it excited as much sensation in the family as when, in his early days of wedded life, an heir to the barony of Hartingham was looked for in his own household; and feeling perhaps a Learlike sympathy with the elements raging around him, and bringing the billowy surges to his feet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, John Irving, chapter 6, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 265",
          "text": "[…] that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in the Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Rafe Esquith, chapter 8, in There Are No Shortcuts, New York: Pantheon, page 118",
          "text": "Of course, no one in the system cares, so his anger is Learlike, screaming to the deaf heavens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eponymous",
          "eponymous"
        ],
        [
          "protagonist",
          "protagonist"
        ],
        [
          "Shakespearean",
          "Shakespearean"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Learlike"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-07-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (e79c026 and b863ecc). 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.