Unactorlike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not actorlike.

    "He was an unusual and intelligent Hamlet, oddly unactorlike. He played the part with the sensitiveness of an amateur, who could play that part and no other — and yet with an efficiency no amateur could ever attain."

Example

More examples

"He was an unusual and intelligent Hamlet, oddly unactorlike. He played the part with the sensitiveness of an amateur, who could play that part and no other — and yet with an efficiency no amateur could ever attain."

Etymology

From un- + actorlike.

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