Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gemlike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gem-like
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact

Example Sentences

"His stuff was gemlike."
"In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments."

Etymology

Etymology tree English gem Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English gemlike From gem + -like.

Inflected Forms

more gemlike (comparative) most gemlike (superlative)

Questions

What does gemlike mean?: Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact
Where does gemlike come from?: Etymology tree English gem Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English gemlike From gem + -like.

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