fawnlike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a fawn.

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Meanings

adjectivefawnlike (comparative more fawnlike, superlative most fawnlike)

comparative more fawnlike · superlative most fawnlike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fawn.

    Miss Walpole was a soft, sleepy-looking beauty, with a pretty, startled, fawnlike look in her large eyes; shy, silent, and with gathered blushes of two summers on her cheek: but, if she had few words, she had a great many smiles, and of these Lord Townshend had the entire benefit.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XVIII. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 136

Origin

From fawn + -like.

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APA

fawnlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fawnlike

MLA

“fawnlike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fawnlike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fawnlike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fawnlike.

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