masklike
See also: mask-like
English
Alternative forms
- mask-like
Etymology
From mask + -like.
Adjective
masklike (comparative more masklike, superlative most masklike)
- Resembling a mask.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face.
- 2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
- The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: