Resembling a board; stiff, flat, or wooden in appearance or manner.
Compound adjective from 'board' plus '-like' (resembling). Created from need to describe something as board-like in quality, common in English descriptive language.
Boardlike is a wonderfully evocative adjective—it suggests both literal flatness and metaphorical stiffness, so a 'boardlike posture' tells you someone is both rigid and lifeless, all in one word!
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