hilllike

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

hill +‎ -like

Adjective

hilllike (comparative more hilllike, superlative most hilllike)

  1. Resembling a hill or hills.
    • 1983, Rik Pinxten, Ingrid Van Dooren, Frank Harvey, Anthropology of space:
      […] it is visualized as a formation with ends coming down, or a hilllike formation, leveling out near the end of its length.
    • 1983, Rachel Swayze O'Connor, Allie Bayne Windham Webb, Mistress of Evergreen Plantation: Rachel O'Connor's legacy of letters, 1823-1845:
      They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands.
    • 1990, Les Holliday, Geoff Rodgers, Coral reefs: a global view:
      Patch reefs are hilllike reefs that often occur in sandy lagoon areas or on the upper reef slope of gently inclined fringing reefs.

Usage notes
  • hill-like is several times more common than hilllike in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid a triple consonant.[2]

References
  1. (hilllike*20),hill-like at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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