Dictionary

objectlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From object + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling an object.
   • Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut. 2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times:

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Synonyms

thinglike