antlike
antlike adjective: resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
Adjective
antlike (comparative more antlike, superlative most antlike)
- Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
- On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass...1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147
- Standing, almost antlike, in the middle of Franco Zeffirelli ’s oversize set for “La Bohème,” however, he pushed uncomfortably.2007 April 5, Bernard Holland, “The Met Shows Off Its Hits and Misses”, in New York Times
Forms of antlike
| comparative | more antlike |
|---|---|
| superlative | most antlike |
Origin of antlike
From ant + -like.
Questions about antlike
- What does antlike mean?
- Antlike means resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
- What part of speech is antlike?
- Antlike is an adjective.
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