Definition of "voicelike" [voicelike]

• Resembling a voice. (adjective)

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• "His unleashed exuberance has quickly made him one of the show's most popular characters, and his high-pitched, gravelly voicelike a pre-pubescent Gonzohas become one of the show's most recognizable sounds."
• ""Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century?""
• "Slides, slurs and voicelike cries still issue from guitars, harmonicas and saxophones, but even in the 1920s the fiddle was on its way out-probably less because it was insufficiently expressive than because it was old-fashioned (it long predates the guitar in America), countrified and, like the banjo, painfully associated with minstrelsy and plantation imagery."