prisonerlike

English

Etymology

From prisoner +‎ -like.

Adjective

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...