gesturelike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

gesture +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

gesturelike (comparative more gesturelike, superlative most gesturelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gesture.
    • 1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience:
      Appealing to specific instances of metaphor to illustrate meaning in a gesturelike manner only results in vacuous circularity […]
    • 2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education:
      […] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]
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