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seamlike

seamlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a seam.

Adjective

seamlike (comparative more seamlike, superlative most seamlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a seam.
    • In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one.1996, Sonia Mycak, In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 128

Forms of seamlike

comparativemore seamlike
superlativemost seamlike

Origin of seamlike

From seam + -like.

Questions about seamlike

What does seamlike mean?
Seamlike means resembling or characteristic of a seam.
What part of speech is seamlike?
Seamlike is an adjective.

Words near seamlike in the dictionary

  1. seamless
  2. seamlessly
  3. seamlessness
  4. seamlet
  5. seamlets
  6. seamlike
  7. seamline
  8. seamlines
  9. Seamon
  10. SEAmonkey
  11. Seamons

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