gemlike

gemlike

English

Etymology

    From gem + -like.

    Adjective

    gemlike (comparative more gemlike, superlative most gemlike)

    1. Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact
      • 1988 June 3, Grant Pick, “A Philosopher's Life”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
        His stuff was gemlike.
      • 2012, Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations:
        In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments.