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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
leechlike is an adjective meaning "of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another". It carries one recorded sense.
of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
“a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses”
“parasitic vines that strangle the trees”
“bloodsucking blackmailer”
“his indolent leechlike existence”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for leechlike come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.