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bustlike

bustlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bust.

Adjective

bustlike (comparative more bustlike, superlative most bustlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bust.
    • Her lips were not wont to be so cold and white when kissed in that glen-bower; not so moveless and bustlike her bosom.1856, John Wilson, The Works of Professor Wilson
    • A 1787 Gainsborough shows the painter looking forward, elegantly attired, with an oval shape around the bustlike pose that could well be the frame of a mirror.2013, Hugh J. Silverman, Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, page 172

Forms of bustlike

comparativemore bustlike
superlativemost bustlike

Origin of bustlike

From bust + -like.

Questions about bustlike

What does bustlike mean?
Bustlike means resembling or characteristic of a bust.
What part of speech is bustlike?
Bustlike is an adjective.

Words near bustlike in the dictionary

  1. bustler
  2. bustlers
  3. bustles
  4. bustlesome
  5. bustleth
  6. bustlike
  7. bustline
  8. bustlines
  9. bustling
  10. bustlingly
  11. bustlings

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