Definition of Listlike

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What to know it's meaning with examples of it

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

'Listlike' is just an ad hoc coinage. It means 'like a list'. It is more common when hyphenated:

...Facebook in May introduced a new tool that generates a rich list-like description of every photo using object recognition.
... I'd love a " favourites " tab, or a more list-like way of organising my games.
...Amazon Home Services, a sort of Angie's list-like service for finding local pros, remains online, and it's continuing to work.
...Google swapped in a visual-loaded, card-style bookmarks manager for the old list-like UI in Chrome last week.
...Apps are arranged alphabetically in a more list-like format rather than the standard grid layout.
...Dr. Dobb's A B C on the ability to change individual elements; so programs tend to use tree- or list-like data structures instead.
...Babstock's rapid-fire association is so stripped of grammatical help that it becomes list-like...
...Reduced to those list-like terms, it sounds crude; and in fairness I should say that it is..

Anonymous · Answer

Without context, this should be "list-like," meaning, "having the characteristics of a list." There are several definitions of the noun, "list." The one most often encountered is, "a series of words or numbers that are related in some way." So, "list-like" would mean, "resembling - literally or figuratively - a series of related words or numbers." So, for example (it's difficult of come up with an example of this with no context):

His art was consistently list-like, essentially a series of marginally related images jumbled together.

Her thinking was always list-like, one thought, followed by another vaguely related one, followed by another, and so forth.

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