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masklike

masklike adjective: resembling a mask.

Adjective

masklike (comparative more masklike, superlative most masklike)

  1. Resembling a mask.
    • The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
    • The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock.2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Forms of masklike

comparativemore masklike
superlativemost masklike
alternative formmask-like

Origin of masklike

From mask + -like.

Questions about masklike

What does masklike mean?
Masklike means resembling a mask.
What part of speech is masklike?
Masklike is an adjective.

Words near masklike in the dictionary

  1. maskinonges
  2. maskins
  3. maskirovka
  4. maskless
  5. masklessness
  6. masklike
  7. maskmaker
  8. maskmakers
  9. maskne
  10. Maskoi
  11. Maskoian

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