prisonerlike

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English

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Etymology

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From prisoner +‎ -like.

Adjective

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prisonerlike (comparative more prisonerlike, superlative most prisonerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.
    • 1982, Harry Gilbert Carlson, Strindberg and the poetry of myth:
      As is revealed in her dream, she needs to be saved from the repressed, prisonerlike existence she endures at the top of the pillar...