cherubic
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 8
/t͡ʃɪˈɹuː.bɪk/
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/t͡ʃɪˈɹuː.bɪk/ · /t͡ʃəˈɹuː.bɪk/
Definition of cherubic
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of, or relating to a cherub; angelic.
“His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.”
“There wasn't a room that had not been clad, picture-railed, dadoed, panelled, stained, gilded, bordered and generally made over to within an inch of its life - can I interest anyone in a gold cherubic sconce?”
“the flyaway pale curls and his round, cherubic face”
“On-screen, the actor Elle Fanning has the cherubic, moon-eyed guilelessness of a storybook princess or an animated woodland creature, the kind that belies a character much more tenacious than she first appears.”
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adj
-
Of, or relating to a cherub; angelic.
“His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.”
“There wasn't a room that had not been clad, picture-railed, dadoed, panelled, stained, gilded, bordered and generally made over to within an inch of its life - can I interest anyone in a gold cherubic sconce?”
“the flyaway pale curls and his round, cherubic face”
“On-screen, the actor Elle Fanning has the cherubic, moon-eyed guilelessness of a storybook princess or an animated woodland creature, the kind that belies a character much more tenacious than she first appears.”
- Of, or like a baby; infantile
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From cherub + -ic.
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