Meanings
adjectivemasklike (comparative more masklike, superlative most masklike)
comparative more masklike · superlative most masklike · alternative mask-like
- Resembling a mask.
The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock.
2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times1 more example
The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
Origin
- Englishmask
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishmasklike
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