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 []