woundlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

wound +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

woundlike (comparative more woundlike, superlative most woundlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a wound.
    • 2009 September 25, Roberta Smith, “In Chelsea, a Chapter in Abstract Art and Some Long Verse”, in New York Times[1]:
      Kitsch may be the only word for a sculpture consisting of several tall, vertical chrome pylons punctuated with drippy, woundlike gashes that glow with changing LED colors.