Meanings
adjectivepaintinglike (comparative more paintinglike, superlative most paintinglike)
comparative more paintinglike · superlative most paintinglike
- Resembling a painting
[…] on the whole he appears to favor more a resolved, paintinglike solidity of form.
2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times
Origin
- Englishpainting
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishpaintinglike
Translations
Finnish maalauksellinen
- maalauksellinenresembling a painting
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