actorlike

Like or resembling an actor

Adjective

  1. Like or resembling an actor
    • Oedipus is actorlike in his taking upon himself words and deeds on the behalf of other characters. - 2000, Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, Univ of North Carolina Press,...
    • They are thus more actorlike in some respects, but arguably less actors (than their forebears, or peasants) in other respects. In any case they are not plausibly the exaggerated actors marching around the metatheory of...
    • Rodier answered the phone on its first ring, his normally deep, actorlike voice cracking with excitement. - 2012, M. L. Longworth, Murder in the Rue Dumas: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery, Penguin, →ISBN:

Origin

From actor + -like.

Forms

more actorlike most actorlike actor-like

Related

actorish actorly

Derived

unactorlike