rotelike en · ADJ
Etymology
From rote + -like.
Meanings
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Like a rote, repetitious.
Their hazy, flickering surfaces mix bits of history (the space race, the civil rights movement, the cold war) with eruptions of weirdly rotelike graphic finesse — the windshield-wiper strokes with which Rauschenberg brought his images to the surface.
2007 March 16, The New York Times, “Art Listings”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most rotelike | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more rotelike | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |