masklike

See also: mask-like

English

Alternative forms

• mask-like

Etymology

From mask +‎ -like.

Adjective

masklike (comparative more masklike, superlative most masklike)

1. Resembling a mask.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face.

   • 2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The works from early in the decade have a masklike, totemic quality, reminiscent of Gorky and early Pollock.