Gemlike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact

    "His stuff was gemlike."

Example

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"In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments."

Etymology

From gem + -like.

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