gemlike

comparative more gemlike · superlative most gemlike

1. Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact

   His stuff was gemlike.

   1988 June 3, Grant Pick, “A Philosopher's Life”, in Chicago Reader

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

   2012, Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations