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toylike

toylike

1 3.5
Looks small, simple, and bright as if made for children to play with
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɔɪˌlaɪk/
: parecido a un juguete
  • The toylike design of the furniture made it perfect for children's play areas.
  • little toylike

Examples

  • She admired the toylike birdhouse, which was painted in bright colors and had a whimsical shape.

  • There was something toylike about the displays that reminded Lim of childhood, and yet he walked among them like a giant.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • My chief responsibility was to take down the flag at sunset from its mast on the flat roof above the seventh floor, and every Sunday I tested my newfound courage by looking down from the edge at the little people waiting for the yellow, toylike streetcars.

    Academic text (2007)
  • His collection included several toylike robots that were both fun and educational.

How Toylike

cartoonish
9 4.2
toylike
1 3.5
childlike
28 3.7
simple
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

toylike positive

Morphology

toylike = toy (transparent) = toy + like

The suffix '-like' clearly indicates resemblance to the noun 'toy'.

Etymology

Toylike comes from the simple word toy, which means 'plaything', plus the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So something toylike looks or feels small, simple, or playful, like a toy.