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Definition of Earthlike
1. Adjective. Earth colored; of something having a color of soil or earth. "A range of earthlike colors"
2. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of earth. "Earthlike atmosphere"
Definition of Earthlike
1. Adjective. Of a planet, resembling the Earth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthlike
Literary usage of Earthlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... to us with a sweeter, more earthlike charm, though not less endowed with all
that is pure and holy, than her sister of the imaginary Mediterranean isle. ..."
2. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"The clouds were tinged an earthlike yellow in the sunrays and in the shadow were
a sorry blue. The flag was sometimes eaten and lost in this mass of vapor, ..."
3. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1919)
"Grass and weeds covered by earthlike tubes, prairie region, Victoria, Texas, ...
Grass and weeds covered by earthlike tubes, prairie region, Victoria, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... is an a grave to it—a closely covered grave ; and it shrinks and deadens and
contracts all its holier and more joyous feelings under the cold earthlike ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"If earthlike foes shall meet thee there, Of human force like thine ; Thine own
good hand must work its way ; Expect not aid of mine. ..."
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