buttonlike

Resembling a button.

Adjective

  1. Resembling a button.
    • […] I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex. When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that...
    • [He] was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes. - 1922, E. E. Cummings, chapter 7, in The Enormous Room, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 153:

Origin

From button + -like.

Forms

more buttonlike most buttonlike

Synonyms

buttony