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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

specklike en · ADJ

Etymology

From speck + -like.

Meanings

  1. 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

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most specklike Degree=Sup lexicographic
more specklike Degree=Cmp lexicographic