gemlike

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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:
      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.