Meaning of antlike | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.

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Examples

“On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass⟳ silently to their work⟳.”

“Standing, almost antlike, in the middle of Franco Zeffirelli ’s oversize set⟳ for “La Bohème,” however, he pushed uncomfortably.”

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