specklike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.

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Meanings

adjectivespecklike (comparative more specklike, superlative most specklike)

comparative more specklike · superlative most specklike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.

    From his window at the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, Pissarro made many paintings of the Avenue de l’Opéra; in the one on view, from 1898, specklike couples promenade into a foggy sky.

    2007 September 14, Karen Rosenberg, “The Radical Eye of Impressionism’s Patriarch”, in New York Times

Origin

From speck + -like.

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APA

specklike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/specklike

MLA

“specklike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/specklike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “specklike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/specklike.

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