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platformish en · ADJ

Etymology

platform + -ish

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a platform (in various senses).
   • A jagged but platformish outcrop of rock just offshore made landing there feasible when Sydney Bay's prevailing winds prevented any thought of landing across the reef. 2001, Colleen McCullough, Morgan's Run, page 625:
   • It was more self-righteousness and dogmatic and platformish, more "you have to do it this way, sister, you have to do it this way." 1999, Gail S. Bernstein, Human Services? That Must be So Rewarding, page 188:
   • […] and partly platformish, that speech still reads true in fact and spirit. But "not half the ordeal people make out"? Mere bravado! 1935, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Simple Story: An Accidental Autobiography, page 102:
   • […] platformish, multiple product sort of existence, utilizes the new Macromedia Open Architecture (MOA), which is an application programming interface, or really more of a programming framework. 1996, Tab Julius, Lingo!, page 330:

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