sandlike

1. 1.

   resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas

   “arenaceous limestone”

   “arenaceous grasses”

   Synonymsarenaceoussandy

Other forms of sandlike

comparative

sandliker·

superlative

sandlikest·

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.

Questions about sandlike

What does sandlike mean?

sandlike means "resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas".

How many syllables are in sandlike?

sandlike has 2 syllables: sand-like. The stress falls on "sand".

What is another word for sandlike?

Close synonyms include arenaceous, sandy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sandlike a common word?

sandlike is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.