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trinketlike

trinketlike adjective: like a trinket; cheap and showy.

Adjective

trinketlike (comparative more trinketlike, superlative most trinketlike)

  1. Like a trinket; cheap and showy.
    • At Bonakdar his atomlike sculptures — composed of mirrored rings and intersecting discs — look more trinketlike than transcendent.2008 February 22, Karen Rosenberg, “Cheeky Hipsters in the Halls of Victorian Brigadiers”, in New York Times

Forms of trinketlike

comparativemore trinketlike
superlativemost trinketlike

Origin of trinketlike

From trinket + -like.

Questions about trinketlike

What does trinketlike mean?
Trinketlike means like a trinket; cheap and showy.
What part of speech is trinketlike?
Trinketlike is an adjective.

Words near trinketlike in the dictionary

  1. trinketization
  2. trinketize
  3. trinketized
  4. trinketizes
  5. trinketizing
  6. trinketlike
  7. trinketries
  8. trinketry
  9. trinkets
  10. trinkety
  11. trinkilo

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