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Definition of Parrotlike
1. Adjective. Mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding. "A voice quality sounding parrotlike"
Definition of Parrotlike
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a parrot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parrotlike
Literary usage of Parrotlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"Very frequently the words were not understood, and the "learning" became nothing
but a parrotlike repetition of meaningless symbols. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"What may be pretty safely asserted is that even in the most parrotlike and
wearisome iteration of " why" and its equivalents " what for ? ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"These parrotlike Finches are famous for their erratic wanderings. They seem to
have no regard for the laws of migration which regulate the journeys of most ..."
4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1920)
"... which he had hoarded up as an ape lays away odds and ends, and which he
repeated, parrotlike, when the sun and his pipe warmed Old Dalton into speech. ..."
5. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"She had been talked to a great deal by moralizing people, and her apparent insight
was perhaps due to parrotlike repetition of words. ..."
6. The Social Unrest: Studies in Labor and Socialist Movements by John Graham Brooks (1903)
"We have pleased ourselves by repeating, parrotlike, " such socialism as we have
in the United States is wholly of foreign origin. ..."
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