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PRONUNCIATION OF NIGHTLIKE

nightlike  [ˈnaɪtˌlaɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIGHTLIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nightlike is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NIGHTLIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nightlike in the English dictionary

The definition of nightlike in the dictionary is resembling the period of darkness each 24 hours between sunset and sunrise, esp in being dark or gloomy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NIGHTLIKE


basketlike
ˈbɑːskɪtˌlaɪk
bullet-like
ˈbʊlɪtˌlaɪk
civetlike
ˈsɪvɪtˌlaɪk
garnet-like
ˈɡɑːnɪtˌlaɪk
gatelike
ˈɡeɪtˌlaɪk
granite-like
ˈɡrænɪtˌlaɪk
hatchet-like
ˈhætʃɪtˌlaɪk
helmetlike
ˈhɛlmɪtˌlaɪk
hermit-like
ˈhɜːmɪtˌlaɪk
jacket-like
ˈdʒækɪtˌlaɪk
kite-like
ˈkaɪtˌlaɪk
platelike
ˈpleɪtˌlaɪk
poetlike
ˈpəʊɪtˌlaɪk
prophet-like
ˈprɒfɪtˌlaɪk
puppetlike
ˈpʌpɪtˌlaɪk
slatelike
ˈsleɪtˌlaɪk
slitlike
ˈslɪtˌlaɪk
trumpet-like
ˈtrʌmpɪtˌlaɪk
velvet-like
ˈvɛlvɪtˌlaɪk
violet-like
ˈvaɪəlɪtˌlaɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NIGHTLIKE

nightglow
nightgown
nighthawk
nightie
nighties
nightingale
Nightingale ward
nightjar
nightless
nightlife
nightlong
nightly
nightmare
nightmare scenario
nightmarish
nightmarishly
nightmarishness
nightmary
nightpiece
nightrider

WORDS THAT END LIKE NIGHTLIKE

beastlike
boltlike
catlike
Christlike
cultlike
dislike
flintlike
footlike
frostlike
ghostlike
goatlike
gutlike
hatlike
netlike
nutlike
oatlike
plantlike
potlike
saltlike
sheetlike
skirtlike

Synonyms and antonyms of nightlike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nightlike» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NIGHTLIKE

Find out the translation of nightlike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nightlike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nightlike» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

nightlike
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nightlike
570 millions of speakers

English

nightlike
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nightlike
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nightlike
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nightlike
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nightlike
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nightlike
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nightlike
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seperti malam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nightlike
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nightlike
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nightlike
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wengi kaya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nightlike
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nightlike
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रात्री सारखे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geceye benzer
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nightlike
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nightlike
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nightlike
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nightlike
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nightlike
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nightlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nightlike
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nightlike
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nightlike

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGHTLIKE»

The term «nightlike» is normally little used and occupies the 144.330 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NIGHTLIKE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nightlike» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nightlike» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nightlike

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGHTLIKE»

Discover the use of nightlike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nightlike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ravens
This is a nightlike no other, saidthe voice.Because athome at this moment thereis someone spraying icy fireand hackingaway like grim death. Someone with thedeep gashes in his fingers, away in for allthat rust. Andthat was the church bells ...
Tomas Bannerhed, 2014
2
Iranian and Diasporic Literature in the 21st Century: A ...
Mandanipour would have to write something ambiguous and rather clunky like: “ Rippling nightlike strands that flow from the living marble and that the black wind ushers toward the light...” (64). Without being told that Mandanipour is writing ...
Daniel Grassian, 2012
3
The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis
This previous form, however, remains alienated from conscious spirit, while unconsciously the ego is merged within its nightlike unity. This is to say that the unconscious ego is some- thing quite different from our waking conscious ego, yet it ...
Jon Mills, 2012
4
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
But to-day-a nightlike day—there was no sun of any sort -_without mist there would have been darkness-and such a mist there was, that the erags, side by side, could not see one another's faces. Yet at some times it was gloomier than at  ...
‎1838
5
Idalia, by 'Ouida'.
He stood motionless a moment, the leaden nightlike shadows heavy as murder on his face and on his soul — then at her feet he dashed the Greek down, unharmed. " What you ask by my honour — take by your shame." And, without another ...
Marie Louise De la Ramée, 1867
6
Papers for the Teacher ...: First-[sixth] series
This fundamental idea includes all the necessities of our knowing, feeling and determining existence. It is the last support of the weary. It maintains the courageous, amid the confusion of the world. It casts, along the nightlike path of fate, alight ...
Henry Barnard, 1861
7
The Christian witness and church members' magazine [ed. by ...
Not clad in garments nightlike and forbidding, As if she came on errand of grim Grief, The mazy passages her feet are thridding, To minister to Woe its hoped relief. Mantled in light, and with a face that's sunny, Mercy's true sister moves among ...
John Campbell, 1868
8
The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell. [with ...
... cast ; their long spears, both at an instant 400 llurl'd, tlew swiftly from hand : Sarpeedon's into the mid-throat Ent'ring, anon thro' his neck came forth by a merciless outpath : Death then arrested his sight with a nightlike gloom shed about him.
Homerus, 1844
9
Rumi's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi, Book One
If you wish to shine like day, burn up your nightlike self-existence. Melt your existence like copper in the elixir into God's Being. You however are determined to hang on to “I” and “We,” although this spiritual ruin is caused by dualism. Analysis ...
Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, 2010
10
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
... you may come upon at any time. Then she lowered her eyelids again, shutting all mysteriousness out of the situation except for the sobering memory of that glance, nightlike in the sunshine, expressively still in the brutal unrest of the street .
Joseph Conrad, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIGHTLIKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nightlike is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Sardine syndrome in the sky
Carry-on baggage is strewn throughout the cabin, and the test is conducted in nightlike conditions. However, the cabin is not filled with smoke, ... «Albany Times Union, Apr 15»
2
Off the wall: Dave Durrance's works on display at Anderson Ranch
... made up of five square canvases arranged in a horizontal row, each showing a glowing, moonlike circle against a dark nightlike background. «Aspen Times, Sep 14»
3
Akshay gets it right with Party all NightLike a Boss
Everything about 'Boss' appears to be fitting well into the scheme of things. Latest to add on to that is the dance number 'Party all Night' that has ... «IndiaGlitz, Sep 13»
4
San Francisco 49ers fall in overtime to Rams 16-13
It was a noon start, but the extended action certainly cast a nightlike gloom for the 49ers inside the Edward Jones Dome. "This will test us. «San Jose Mercury News, Dec 12»
5
Photo in the News: Eclipse Photographed by Space Station Crew
Down on Earth, people in the center of the shadow, or umbra, experienced deep, nightlike darkness, while those in the shadow's lighter portion, ... «National Geographic, Mar 06»

REFERENCE
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