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Word Meanings - OWLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • CHARACTERISTICALLY
    In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
  • RESEMBLE
    sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
  • RESEMBLABLE
    Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
  • CHARACTERISTICAL
    Characteristic.
  • RESEMBLER
    One who resembles.
  • RESEMBLANCE
    1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
  • NONRESEMBLANCE
    Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

 

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