objectlike

comparative more objectlike · superlative most objectlike

1. Resembling an object.

   Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut.

   2007 February 16, Roberta Smith, “Painting in the Heady Days, After It Was Proclaimed Dead”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: thinglike