prisonerlike

prisonerlike

English

Etymology

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...