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gemlike

gemlike adjective: resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact.

Adjective

gemlike (comparative more gemlike, superlative most gemlike)

  1. Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact
    • His stuff was gemlike.1988 June 3, Grant Pick, “A Philosopher's Life”, in Chicago Reader
    • In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments.2012, Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations

Forms of gemlike

comparativemore gemlike
superlativemost gemlike

Origin of gemlike

From gem + -like.

Questions about gemlike

What does gemlike mean?
Gemlike means resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact.
What part of speech is gemlike?
Gemlike is an adjective.

Words near gemlike in the dictionary

  1. gemistocytes
  2. gemistocytic
  3. gemistocytoma
  4. gemistocytomas
  5. gemless
  6. gemlike
  7. gemm
  8. gemma
  9. gemmaceous
  10. gemmae
  11. gemmal

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