saucerlike

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adjective

Resembling a saucer.

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English saucer →
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Meanings

adjectivesaucerlike (comparative more saucerlike, superlative most saucerlike)

comparative more saucerlike · superlative most saucerlike

  1. Resembling a saucer.

    Her virtuous, pale-blue, saucerlike eyes flooded with leviathan tears on unexpected occasions and made Yossarian mad.

    1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171

Origin

  1. Englishsaucer
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishsaucerlike

From saucer + -like.

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APA

saucerlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saucerlike

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “saucerlike,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saucerlike.

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