underwaterish

comparative more underwaterish · superlative most underwaterish

1. As if underwater.

   The scene around her—the buildings, the people—all appeared underwaterish—insubstantial and weaving.

   2000, Robert K. Wen, Love Across the Pacific, →ISBN, page 131

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   With lovely, underwaterish movements, she settled her wide-trunked body into her chair, and there she would remain, expecting to be waited upon by those around her, which indeed nearly always happened.

   2006, Anne Crosby, Matthew: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 51

   But in the end the thumping turned out to be the strange, underwaterish rhythm of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', coming from a small transistor radio belonging to a fed-up-looking North Countryman with a big family and sand in his turn-ups.

   2015, John Gale, Clean Young Englishman, →ISBN