Antlike
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antlike is an adjective meaning Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
Meaning
Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
Example Sentences
Standing, almost antlike, in the middle of Franco Zeffirelli ’s oversize set for “La Bohème,” however, he pushed uncomfortably.
On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include myrmecoid, antlerlike, antennalike, antelopelike, aphidlike, objectlike.
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