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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

trinketlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From trinket + -like.

Meanings

  1. Like a trinket; cheap and showy.
    • At Bonakdar his atomlike sculptures — composed of mirrored rings and intersecting discs — look more trinketlike than transcendent. 2008 February 22, Karen Rosenberg, “Cheeky Hipsters in the Halls of Victorian Brigadiers”, in New York Times:

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more trinketlike Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most trinketlike Degree=Sup lexicographic