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paintinglike

paintinglike adjective: resembling a painting.

Adjective

paintinglike (comparative more paintinglike, superlative most paintinglike)

  1. Resembling a painting
    • […] on the whole he appears to favor more a resolved, paintinglike solidity of form.2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times

Forms of paintinglike

comparativemore paintinglike
superlativemost paintinglike

Origin of paintinglike

From painting + -like.

Questions about paintinglike

What does paintinglike mean?
Paintinglike means resembling a painting.
What part of speech is paintinglike?
Paintinglike is an adjective.

Words near paintinglike in the dictionary

  1. painting the wagon
  2. painting up
  3. painting with a broad brush
  4. painting with a wide brush
  5. painting with the same brush
  6. paintinglike
  7. paintingness
  8. paintings
  9. paintjob
  10. paintjobs
  11. paintless

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