Engineerish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of an engineer.

    "They were dressed informally in jeans and shirts with open collars, and were similar in bearing—soft-spoken, friendly, distinctly engineerish."

Example

More examples

"They were dressed informally in jeans and shirts with open collars, and were similar in bearing—soft-spoken, friendly, distinctly engineerish."

Etymology

From engineer + -ish.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.