buttonlike

English

Etymology

From button +‎ -like.

Adjective

buttonlike (comparative more buttonlike, superlative most buttonlike)

1. Resembling a button.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “-Epliogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     […] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I did revolve.

   • 1922, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, →OCLC, page 153:

     [He] was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.

Synonyms

• buttony