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glyphlike

glyphlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a glyph.

Adjective

glyphlike (comparative more glyphlike, superlative most glyphlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a glyph.
    • Using wild pen gestures he created glyphlike characters meant for both adult and child that were both sophisticated and accessible.2007 February 20, Steven Heller, “Joseph Low, 95, Illustrator of Children’s Books, Dies”, in New York Times

Forms of glyphlike

comparativemore glyphlike
superlativemost glyphlike

Origin of glyphlike

From glyph + -like.

Questions about glyphlike

What does glyphlike mean?
Glyphlike means resembling or characteristic of a glyph.
What part of speech is glyphlike?
Glyphlike is an adjective.

Words near glyphlike in the dictionary

  1. glyphics
  2. glyphipterigid
  3. glyphipterigids
  4. glyphipterigine
  5. glyphipterigines
  6. glyphlike
  7. glyphograph
  8. glyphographer
  9. glyphographers
  10. glyphographic
  11. glyphographs

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