specklike en · ADJ
Etymology
From speck + -like.
Meanings
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Resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.
From his window at the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, Pissarro made many paintings of the Avenue de l’Opéra; in the one on view, from 1898, specklike couples promenade into a foggy sky.
2007 September 14, Karen Rosenberg, “The Radical Eye of Impressionism’s Patriarch”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most specklike | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more specklike | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |