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domelike

domelike

4.3
Shaped like a dome
  • adjective
  • /ˈdoʊmˌlaɪk/
translation icon : en forma de cúpula
  • The garden featured a beautiful gazebo with a domelike roof that provided shade on sunny days.
  • domelike rocks
  • domelike and white

Examples

  • The old church had a striking domelike ceiling adorned with intricate painted designs.

  • The emphasis here is on the stony quality of the land that is dry and surrounded by rocks that are domelike and white.

    Academic text (1995)

  • There were domelike white rocks that here and there crumpled into huge heaps.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Instead, the aperture was a moist, sucking hole in the side of the thing's domelike body.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Therefore, the white, domelike rocks enclosing the village refer to the withered hearts of the Wariri.

    Academic text (1995)

  • She stares toward the window, where a nervous river of skinny light runs in the domelike, temporarily lighted sky.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • They built a domelike structure made of glass that resembled a large igloo in the middle of the park.

Synonyms

domed
vsdomelike
11 3.8

Having a rounded top like a roof or a turtle shell

means the same but applies more to structures than general objects
dome-shaped
vsdomelike
1 3.6

Having a rounded top like the roof of a building

means the same but is written as one unhyphenated word
globelike
vsdomelike
4.1

Having the shape of a round ball

is similar but denotes a full ball shape rather than a curved roof form

Antonyms

flat
797 1.0

Level and even without parts higher or lower

concave
5 5.2

Curved inward like the inside of a bowl or spoon

How Domed

domed
11 3.8
domelike
4.3
curved
6 1.0
flat
797 1.0

Surface Forms

domelike positive

Morphology

domelike = dome (transparent) = dome + like

Direct and regular adjectival formation from 'dome' with the productive suffix '-like' meaning 'having the shape of'.

Etymology

Domelike is simply dome + -like; dome comes from an old word for 'house' (you can see the same root in domestic) and -like means 'similar to'. So, domelike means having the rounded, roof-like shape of a dome.