quietlike

quietlike

English

Etymology

From quiet +‎ -like.

Adjective

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

1. Indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.
   • 2007, Richard Boes, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive:

     Me, no, wouldn't hurt nobody, but where the fuck was I? Guess I wasn't so much in school, this serene quietlike country setting, as sitting on the spare tire of an open gun jeep manning an M-60 machine gun, patrolling a mountain side, [...]

Adverb

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

1. In a quietlike manner; quietly.
   • 2009, John Aubrey Anderson, Abiding Darkness:

     "[...] I can watch her quietlike... like a man."