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balladlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From ballad + -like.

Meanings

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a ballad.
    • This veteran jazz pianist’s new album, “Solo in Mondsee” (ECM), is a solo-piano record of improvisations, most of them balladlike and quite beautiful, even in their most sprawling phases. 2007 August 19, Ben Ratliff, “Jazz as It Is and Was, and Flamenco as It Can Be”, in New York Times:

Forms

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more balladlike Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most balladlike Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (2)

pl balladowy (Translations) · pl balladyczny (Translations)