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gesturelike

gesturelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a gesture.

Adjective

gesturelike (comparative more gesturelike, superlative most gesturelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
    • Appealing to specific instances of metaphor to illustrate meaning in a gesturelike manner only results in vacuous circularity […]1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience
    • […] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education

Forms of gesturelike

comparativemore gesturelike
superlativemost gesturelike

Origin of gesturelike

From gesture + -like.

Questions about gesturelike

What does gesturelike mean?
Gesturelike means resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
What part of speech is gesturelike?
Gesturelike is an adjective.

Words near gesturelike in the dictionary

  1. gesture
  2. gesture politics
  3. gestured
  4. gestureless
  5. gesturelessness
  6. gesturelike
  7. gesturement
  8. gesturements
  9. gesturer
  10. gesturers
  11. gestures

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