beadlike

1. 1.

   small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button

   “bright beady eyes”

   “black buttony eyes”

   Synonymsbeadybuttonybuttonlike

   Similarbright

Questions about beadlike

What does beadlike mean?

beadlike means "small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button".

How many syllables are in beadlike?

beadlike has 3 syllables: be-ad-like. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for beadlike?

Close synonyms include beady, buttony, buttonlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beadlike a common word?

beadlike is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.