Tokenish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling a token; symbolic; (by extension) insignificant; nominal.

    "a tokenish gesture"

Adjective
  1. 1
    insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal) wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
minimalnominaltoken

Etymology

From token + -ish.

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