claylike

Examples

• All

• Very claylike, you know, everything I can basically sculpt like clay.

  Blog text (12)

• Excavating here is hard work; the humidity assures that the decomposed matter in the fill beneath has the consistency of thick, claylike mud.

  Academic text (2002)

• I recall the ambulance coming to our house, the men trying to put her on a stretcher, and her just aware enough to struggle with them—flailing her arms when they lifted her, her mumbled protests through lips that seemed claylike and unnatural, moving like a badly dubbed Japanese film.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The artist used a claylike material to create a realistic sculpture of a human figure.

• The soil in this region is claylike, making it difficult for plants to grow.

• After the rain, the ground became soft and claylike, sticking to my shoes with every step.

Synonyms

C

clayish

vsclaylike

4.4

Has the feel of heavy, sticky soil that becomes soft when wet and is used to make pots

has identical meaning but uses a different word form

C

clayey

vsclaylike

6.8

Soil that is thick and sticky because it contains a lot of clay

focuses on general resemblance in texture or appearance not only soils

A

argillaceous

vsclaylike

• Specialized

9.9

A rock or soil that contains a lot of clay

is the everyday description of similar texture or appearance

How Clayey

clayey

6.8

claylike

1 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology