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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

paintinglike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English painting Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English paintinglike From painting + -like.

Meanings

  1. Resembling a painting
    • […] on the whole he appears to favor more a resolved, paintinglike solidity of form. 2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times:

Forms

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more paintinglike Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most paintinglike Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (1)

fi maalauksellinen (resembling a painting)