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plasterlike

plasterlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of plaster (the material).

Adjective

plasterlike (comparative more plasterlike, superlative most plasterlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of plaster (the material).
    • Two jumbled chandeliers feature three-dimensional coconuts, or at least plasterlike casts of them.2009 July 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Forms of plasterlike

comparativemore plasterlike
superlativemost plasterlike

Origin of plasterlike

From plaster + -like.

Questions about plasterlike

What does plasterlike mean?
Plasterlike means resembling or characteristic of plaster (the material).
What part of speech is plasterlike?
Plasterlike is an adjective.

Words near plasterlike in the dictionary

  1. plasterers
  2. plasteriness
  3. plastering
  4. plasterings
  5. plasterless
  6. plasterlike
  7. plasterly
  8. plasterman
  9. plastermen
  10. plasters
  11. plasterwise

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