specklike

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English

Etymology

From speck +‎ -like.

Adjective

specklike (comparative more specklike, superlative most specklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a speck; almost too small to see.
    • 2007 September 14, Karen Rosenberg, “The Radical Eye of Impressionism’s Patriarch”, in New York Times:
      From his window at the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, Pissarro made many paintings of the Avenue de l’Opéra; in the one on view, from 1898, specklike couples promenade into a foggy sky.