Word Meanings - STATUELIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Like a statue; motionless.
Related words: (words related to STATUELIKE)
- STATUELESS
Without a statue. - STATUED
Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot. - STATUELIKE
Like a statue; motionless. - STATUETTE
A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine. - MOTIONLESS
Without motion; being at rest. - STATUESQUELY
In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell. - STATUESQUE
Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude. Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that - STATUE
1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak. 2. A portrait. Massinger.