Buttonlike
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling a button.
"[…] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve."
Adjective
- 1 small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve."
Etymology
From button + -like.
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