box-like

English

Etymology

From box +‎ -like.

Adjective

box-like (comparative more box-like, superlative most box-like)

1. Alternative form of boxlike.
   • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 31:

     Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, […]

   • 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 302:

     The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...].