Fortresslike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.

    "The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island."

Example

More examples

"The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island."

Etymology

From fortress + -like.

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