gemlike

adj

gemlike

adj

Etymology From gem + -like.

1

Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact

  • His stuff was gemlike.1988 June 3, Grant Pick, “A Philosopher's Life”, in Chicago Reader:
  • In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments.2012, Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations:

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