platformish

English

Etymology

platform +‎ -ish

Adjective

platformish (comparative more platformish, superlative most platformish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a platform (in various senses).
    • 1935, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Simple Story: An Accidental Autobiography, page 102:
      […] and partly platformish, that speech still reads true in fact and spirit. But "not half the ordeal people make out"? Mere bravado!
    • 1996, Tab Julius, Lingo!, page 330:
      […] platformish, multiple product sort of existence, utilizes the new Macromedia Open Architecture (MOA), which is an application programming interface, or really more of a programming framework.
    • 1999, Gail S. Bernstein, Human Services? That Must be So Rewarding, page 188:
      It was more self-righteousness and dogmatic and platformish, more "you have to do it this way, sister, you have to do it this way."
    • 2001, Colleen McCullough, Morgan's Run, page 625:
      A jagged but platformish outcrop of rock just offshore made landing there feasible when Sydney Bay's prevailing winds prevented any thought of landing across the reef.
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