Objectlike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling an object.

    "Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut."

Synonyms

All synonyms
thinglikethinglike

Example

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"Some were trying out unusual materials and techniques — cotton balls, fake jewels, pigmented wax, spray guns, squeegees — either to make painting more perversely objectlike or to reopen the spatial illusions shut down by the Judd-Stella-Greenberg juggernaut."

Etymology

From object + -like.

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