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specklike

specklike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.

Adjective

specklike (comparative more specklike, superlative most specklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.
    • From his window at the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, Pissarro made many paintings of the Avenue de l’Opéra; in the one on view, from 1898, specklike couples promenade into a foggy sky.2007 September 14, Karen Rosenberg, “The Radical Eye of Impressionism’s Patriarch”, in New York Times

Forms of specklike

comparativemore specklike
superlativemost specklike

Origin of specklike

From speck + -like.

Questions about specklike

What does specklike mean?
Specklike means resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.
What part of speech is specklike?
Specklike is an adjective.

Words near specklike in the dictionary

  1. specklegrams
  2. speckles
  3. speckless
  4. specklessly
  5. specklessness
  6. specklike
  7. speckliness
  8. speckling
  9. specklings
  10. speckly
  11. Speckman

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