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breastlike

breastlike adjective: resembling a breast or breasts.

Adjective

breastlike (comparative more breastlike, superlative most breastlike)

  1. Resembling a breast or breasts.
    • In recent years Bourgeois has devoted much time to her Cumul series, suggested by the round, breastlike forms of cumulus clouds.1990, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions
    • Well, there’s Sarah Lucas’s “Cigarette Tits II (Idealized Smoker’s Chest II)” from 1999, a sculpture that conjures rebellious female debauchery with a side chair, two breastlike hemispheres covered with cigarettes and a black bra.2009 August 21, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Forms of breastlike

comparativemore breastlike
superlativemost breastlike

Origin of breastlike

From breast + -like.

Questions about breastlike

What does breastlike mean?
Breastlike means resembling a breast or breasts.
What part of speech is breastlike?
Breastlike is an adjective.

Words near breastlike in the dictionary

  1. breastknots
  2. breastless
  3. breastlessness
  4. breastlift
  5. breastlifts
  6. breastlike
  7. breastling
  8. breastlings
  9. breastmilk
  10. breastmilks
  11. Breaston

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