dulcimerlike

English

Etymology

From dulcimer +‎ -like.

Adjective

dulcimerlike (comparative more dulcimerlike, superlative most dulcimerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a dulcimer.
    • 2007 December 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Dreams (and Instruments) of a Visionary Tinkerer”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 February 2025:
      A gently droning main theme on a dulcimerlike instrument sets the mood as other instruments enter with delicate sliding figurations, speckled bursts of percussion and sustained chords that sound entrancingly off-pitch.
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