Novelish

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a novel.

    "Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]"

Synonyms

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novelesquenovellike

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"Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]"

Etymology

From novel + -ish. Piecewise doublet of novelesque.

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