masklike

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face."
"The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock."

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

more masklike (comparative) most masklike (superlative) mask-like (alternative)

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What does masklike mean?

Resembling a mask.

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