The Collaborative International Dictionary
clifflike \clifflike\ adj. characterized by cliffs; -- of a shore or shoreline; -- contrasted with beachy. [Narrower terms: precipitous, steep]
Syn: cliffy.
Wiktionary
a. Resembling a cliff or some aspect of one; high and steep.
WordNet
Usage examples of "clifflike".
In two days, however, it would be lit with lanterns, thrust out on jutting poles from the bordering, clifflike house and strung with garlands and flags.
We stood for a long time, all of us, on he summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.
He then walked back to the height of the clifflike side of the hill, that with the crashing waves at its foot.
There, shrouded by darkness and fog, was a gap in the mountain-a fissure four times the full reach of a man, ex tending from the clifflike face of the peak above down to the deep valley below, shrouded in nocturnal fog.
There seemed no approach for the canoe, and rather than sit idly until the incoming tide covered the mud again so that we could paddle in, we carried our belongings high up the side of the hill, safely out of reach of the water when it should rise, and then started to pick our way around the face of the clifflike hill, with the intention of skirting the bay and reaching the Post at once from the upper side.
Perpendicular, clifflike walls shut us off from retreat to the land and there was not a possibility of shelter anywhere.
There, shrouded by darkness and fog, was a gap in the mountain-a fissure four times the full reach of a man, extending from the clifflike face of the peak above down to the deep valley below, shrouded in nocturnal fog.
In a moment they were out of the water, and in another moment out of the cave, and, then Naldo was slithering down the clifflike mountain slope to the ground.
Nicole craned forward in her chair, looking up through the Rover's canopy at the looming, clifflike expanse of the Alien hull.
They headed toward the interior of the great ship, swimming like minnows past the clifflike braces and thick pillars, pushing themselves off by any surface they could reach.
It was an impressive late Victorian pile, with turrets and huge picture windows that glowed like the eyes of a jack-o'-lantern, situated on a clifflike outcropping that overlooked the lake.
A handful of low buildings and tents, with the skeleton of the drill tower rising above them, while the clifflike bulk of the spaceship shadowed it all.