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buttonlike

buttonlike adjective: resembling a button.

Adjective

buttonlike (comparative more buttonlike, superlative most buttonlike)

  1. Resembling a button.
    • […] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “-Epliogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • [He] was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 153
    Synonyms:
    buttony

Synonyms of buttonlike

Forms of buttonlike

comparativemore buttonlike
superlativemost buttonlike

Origin of buttonlike

From button + -like.

Questions about buttonlike

What does buttonlike mean?
Buttonlike means resembling a button.
What part of speech is buttonlike?
Buttonlike is an adjective.

Words near buttonlike in the dictionary

  1. buttonized
  2. buttonizes
  3. buttonizing
  4. buttonless
  5. buttonlessness
  6. buttonlike
  7. buttonlock
  8. buttonlocks
  9. buttonmaker
  10. buttonmakers
  11. buttonmaking

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