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comparative more gesturelike, superlative most gesturelike
Resembling or characteristic of a gesture. quotations examples
Appealing to specific instances of metaphor to illustrate meaning in a gesturelike manner only results in vacuous circularity […]
1988, Phillip Stambovsky, The depictive image: metaphor and literary experience
[…] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]
2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education