cronelike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

crone +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

cronelike (comparative more cronelike, superlative most cronelike)

  1. Like a crone; old and withered.
    • 2009 September 13, Caryn James, “Ethnic Cleansers”, in New York Times[1]:
      He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook.