flowerlike

[flou-er-lahyk]

adjective

1. resembling or in the shape of a flower; delicate; graceful.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flowerlike¹

flower + -like

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, Lord Grigon’s dastardly hobby is skeet-shooting fragile, flowerlike critters.

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Flowerlike concrete appendages rose to the sun, bejeweled with glass, marbles and shards of old pots.

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“This elegantly structured book contains a long poem in 14 sections, ‘Scheherazade/Scheherazade,’ with the first seven early in the book and the last seven later, a flowerlike symmetry.

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“Chill. That does sound very flowerlike.”

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The clothes he designed, as he puts it, were “for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists.”

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