Resembling or characteristic of Babel; full of confusion, conflicting languages, or noise.
Combination of babel (from the Tower of Babel) and the suffix -like meaning 'similar to' or 'having the quality of.' This compound formation allows speakers to describe something as babel-like without using the formal -ic adjective form.
English lets us make adjectives by just adding -like to almost anything ('childlike,' 'dreamlike'), so 'babelike' is just a casual way of saying something feels like stepping into biblical confusion.
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