mobilelike

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English

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Etymology

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From mobile +‎ -like.

Adjective

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mobilelike (comparative more mobilelike, superlative most mobilelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mobile (decorative hanging arrangement).
    • 2008 June 20, Roberta Smith, “Just Enough Seriousness to Go Around”, in New York Times[1]:
      Punctuated by grainy appropriated photographs, like a recurring image of women reading newspapers on a subway, they veer between colorful quiltlike patchworks of fabric scraps and painted wood or Goth-style compositions of black, white and silver Mylar, and occasionally venture into three dimensions with mobilelike standing structures.