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Definition: Lamblike |
LamblikeAdjective1. Like a lamb in meekness and gentleness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lamblike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "lamblike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | urtë e butë, si qingj. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кротък като агънце. (various references) | |
Czech | mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, sober, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled). (various references) | |
French | innocent, adorable. (various references) | |
Greek | ωσ αρνί. (various references) | |
Italian | mansueto (docile, gentle, meek, mild, tame), docile (amenable, biddable, docile, governable, meek, soft, tame, tractable, workable). (various references) | |
Manx | eaynagh (desert, steep; lamb-producing, wilderness; precipitous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amblikelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), manso (gentle, meek, mild, pet, tame), cordeirinho (baa lamb, cosset, yeanling). (various references) | |
Romanian | ca mielul. (various references) | |
Russian | кроткий (dove-like, gentle, meek, mild-mannered, placable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kao jagnje, jagnjeći (lamb). (various references) | |
Spanish | como cordero. (various references) | |
Swedish | saktmodig (meek), mild (bland, charitable, Clement, delicate, easy, genial, gentle, kind, lenient, mild, soft). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่เหมือนลูกแกะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding), masum (blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, sinless, wide-eyed), kuzu gibi (as meek as a lamb, like a lamb). (various references) | |
Ukranian | лагідний (accommodating, appeasable, benign, dovelike, gentle, livable, meek, pacable, placable), покірний (acquiesced, acquiescent, benign, duteous, meek, obedient, obediential, obeisant, prideless, resigned, submissive, tame). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Lamblike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ambelaki. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lamblike" (pronounced 'Lamb"like'): Airlike, Beastlike, Birdlike, Blocklike, Catlike, Childlike, Christlike, Churchlike, Clerklike, Clocklike, Courtlike, Cowlike, Deathlike, Dovelike, Fanlike, Fiendlike, Finlike, fishlike, Foxlike, Ghostlike, Goatlike, godlike, Hearselike, homelike, lifelike, Lordlike, manlike, Maplike, Oxlike, Priestlike, Princelike, rushlike, saintlike, Shoplike, starlike, Stealthlike, Sunlike, Swanlike, sylphlike, Trumplike, Twinlike, Unguestlike, Unlawlike, Warlike, Wifelike. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: balmlike. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-k-l-l-m" | |
-1 letter: likable. | |
-2 letters: alible, labile, lambie, liable, mallei. | |
-3 letters: alike, amble, blame, bleak, email, ileal, kelim, kibla, label, libel, limba, maile, maill, mille. | |
-4 letters: able, alme, amie, bail, bake, bale, balk, ball, balm, beak, beam, bell, bema, bike, bile, bilk, bill, bima, blae, blam, iamb, ilea, ilka, kail, kale, kame, kami, kibe, kill, lake, lamb, lame, leak, leal, like, lima, limb, lime, mabe, mail, make, male, mall, meal, mell, mike, mile, milk, mill. | |
-5 letters: ail, aim, alb, ale, all, ami, bal, bam, bel, elk, ell, elm, ilk, ill, kab, kae, kea, lab, lam, lea, lei, lek, lib, lie, mae, mel, mib, mil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-k-l-l-m" | |
+3 letters: blackmailed, blackmailer. | |
+4 letters: blackmailers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6D 62 6C 69 6B 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -- -... .-.. .. -.- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a m b l i k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006D 0062 006C 0069 006B 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667796878757771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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