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fawnlike

fawnlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a fawn.

Adjective

fawnlike (comparative more fawnlike, superlative most fawnlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fawn.
    • Miss Walpole was a soft, sleepy-looking beauty, with a pretty, startled, fawnlike look in her large eyes; shy, silent, and with gathered blushes of two summers on her cheek: but, if she had few words, she had a great many smiles, and of these Lord Townshend had the entire benefit.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XVIII. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136

Forms of fawnlike

comparativemore fawnlike
superlativemost fawnlike

Origin of fawnlike

From fawn + -like.

Questions about fawnlike

What does fawnlike mean?
Fawnlike means resembling or characteristic of a fawn.
What part of speech is fawnlike?
Fawnlike is an adjective.

Words near fawnlike in the dictionary

  1. fawning over
  2. fawningly
  3. fawningness
  4. fawnings
  5. fawnish
  6. fawnlike
  7. fawnlilies
  8. fawnlily
  9. fawnling
  10. fawnlings
  11. Fawnlock

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