voicelike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

voice +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

voicelike (comparative more voicelike, superlative most voicelike)

  1. Resembling a voice.
    The synthesiser produced an eerie, voicelike sound.
    • 2015 August 18, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)‎[1], Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47:
      It's got so I don't even know for sure
      Whether I am glad, sorry, or anything.
      There's nothing but a voice-like left inside
      That seems to tell me how I ought to feel,
      And would feel if I wasn't all gone wrong.
      You take the lake.I look and look at it. []