Definition of Filmlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a film. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Filmlike

1. resembling film [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filmlike

filminess
filminesses
filming
filmings
filmis
filmish
filmization
filmizations
filmize
filmized
filmizes
filmizing
filmland
filmlands
filmless
filmlike (current term)
filmmaker
filmmakers
filmmaking
filmmakings
filmographies
filmography
filmology
films
films noirs
filmset
filmsets
filmsetter
filmsetters
filmsetting

Literary usage of Filmlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"Some have smooth, dull, filmlike surfaces, others are glazed. These plaques are more numerous on the right side. They occupy sulci of the frontal and ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1920)
"The impurities that make a coal difficult to wash are thin bands of friable shale; bony coal; carbonaceous shale; thin filmlike flakes of pyrite, calcite, ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"The initial stages present the same objective symptoms as albuminurie retinitis : Hyperemia, serous exudation, a gray or bluish-gray, filmlike veiling of ..."

4. Coal Washing by Ernst Prochaska (1921)
"The impurities that make a coal difficult to wash are thin bands of friable shale; bony coal; carbonaceous shale; thin filmlike flakes of pyrite, calcite, ..."

5. Travels in Europe and America by Charles Edward Bolton, Sarah Knowles Bolton (1903)
"Many of the basins have exquisitely fretted rims; the colors of their wavy filmlike borders are often very beautiful. It is not difficult to climb to the ..."

6. The Human Cobweb: A Romance of Peking by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1910)
"To the six people watching her expectantly, she seemed in her white filmlike dress, with her fluffy curls and her strange, staring eyes, almost like a ..."

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