masklike

adj

masklike

adj

Etymology From mask + -like.

1

Resembling a mask.

  • The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
  • The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock.2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:

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