Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Owllike; resembling an owl or some one of its features.
- Having an appearance of preternatural gravity and wisdom.
- Stupid; dull; fat-witted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
resembling orcharacteristic of anowl - adjective
wise andsolemn
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance
Etymologies
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Examples
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The American nodded with a kind of owlish solemnity.
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The Canadian-born, "owlish" architect loses his cool with a reporter from the British newspaper the
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In comments I admitted I had a hummingbird spirit but was striving to learn owlish ways.
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In flashbulbs they went owlish, lacquered in oil blue.
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Bottom line: Outlines might be more suited to owlish writers, but they can be used effectively by hummingbirds like me, too.
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I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways.
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We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar.
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In flashbulbs they went owlish, lacquered in oil blue.
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We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar.
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Senate Minority Leader McConnell, 68, is owlish, phlegmatic, and gray, and often looks bothered, as though lunch isn't agreeing with him.
ecrivaine33 commented on the word owlish
Probably because I am just mad about owls
January 18, 2007