Resembling candy in appearance, taste, texture, or sweetness; having the qualities or characteristics of candy.
Compound formed from candy + like, where like is a productive suffix meaning 'having the qualities of' or 'resembling'; unlike or childlike follow the same pattern.
The -like suffix is one of English's most flexible word-building tools—you can add it to almost any word to create a descriptive adjective, which is why new -like words keep being invented!
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