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cowlike
This term describes a specific quality of sluggishness or placidity, often evoking an image of heavy, deliberate movement or a vacant, docile expression. It is frequently used in descriptive writing to convey a sense of ungainliness or a lack of agility.
Because it is a descriptive adjective formed by adding the suffix -like, it functions as a qualitative modifier. It does not possess irregular pluralization or countability constraints as it is not a noun.
Meanings
Examples
The creature had a strange cowlike appearance with large nostrils and heavy hooves.
He just stood there with a cowlike expression of total confusion.
The animal possesses a cowlike temperament and rarely reacts to noise.
She noticed the cowlike gait of the beast as it lumbered across the field.
Why are you just staring at me with those cowlike eyes?
The sculpture was intentionally cowlike to represent peace and fertility.
I felt a cowlike laziness wash over me after the heavy meal.
The monster was a grotesque mix of human and cowlike features.