Definition of "monkeylike" []

• Similar to a monkey (adjective)
• Similar to that of a monkey; as, a monkeylike skull, monkeylike curiosity (adjective)
• In the manner of a monkey (adverb)

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• "There were few left who even knew him by the name his shipmates had given him for his monkeylike propensity to swing through the sheets and lines."
• "She watched tall, pale elves, as thin as slivers of moonlight, glide across branches, and she saw monkeylike and catlike men and women scurry among them."
• "He uttered a monkeylike hoot-hoot and let his arms dangle."