Dictionary

actorlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From actor + -like.

Meanings

1. Like or resembling an actor
   • Rodier answered the phone on its first ring, his normally deep, actorlike voice cracking with excitement. 2012, M. L. Longworth, Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery, Penguin, →ISBN:
   • Oedipus is actorlike in his taking upon himself words and deeds on the behalf of other characters. 2000, Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, Univ of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 86:
   • They are thus more actorlike in some respects, but arguably less actors (than their forebears, or peasants) in other respects. In any case they are not plausibly the exaggerated actors marching around the metatheory of actor-centric social science. 2002, Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch, New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 253:

Forms

Deriveds

unactorlike

Relateds

actorly · actorish