Abattoirlike
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling or characteristic of an abattoir. rare
"His “Macbeth,” which was such a hit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that it recently transferred to Broadway, is set in a vaguely Stalinist era and staged in a tiled abattoirlike space that was partly inspired by the horror movie “Saw.”"
Example
More examples"His “Macbeth,” which was such a hit at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that it recently transferred to Broadway, is set in a vaguely Stalinist era and staged in a tiled abattoirlike space that was partly inspired by the horror movie “Saw.”"
Etymology
From abattoir + -like.
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