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objectlike

objectlike adjective: resembling an object.

Adjective

objectlike (comparative more objectlike, superlative most objectlike)

  1. Resembling an object.
    • Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut.2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    thinglike

Synonyms of objectlike

Forms of objectlike

comparativemore objectlike
superlativemost objectlike

Origin of objectlike

From object + -like.

Questions about objectlike

What does objectlike mean?
Objectlike means resembling an object.
What part of speech is objectlike?
Objectlike is an adjective.

Words near objectlike in the dictionary

  1. objectizes
  2. objectizing
  3. objectless
  4. objectlessly
  5. objectlessness
  6. objectlike
  7. objectness
  8. objectnesses
  9. objectophile
  10. objectophiles
  11. objectophilia

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