antlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
Example Sentences
- "On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work."
- "Standing, almost antlike, in the middle of Franco Zeffirelli ’s oversize set for “La Bohème,” however, he pushed uncomfortably."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā Old English ǣmete Middle English ampte English ant Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English antlike From ant + -like.
Inflected Forms
more antlike (comparative)
most antlike (superlative)