underwaterishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

underwaterish (comparative more underwaterish, superlative most underwaterish)

1. As if underwater.
   • 2000, Robert K. Wen, Love Across the Pacific, →ISBN, page 131:

     The scene around her—the buildings, the people—all appeared underwaterish—insubstantial and weaving.

   • 2006, Anne Crosby, Matthew: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 51:

     With lovely, underwaterish movements, she settled her wide-trunked body into her chair, and there she would remain, expecting to be waited upon by those around her, which indeed nearly always happened.

   • 2015, John Gale, Clean Young Englishman, →ISBN:

     But in the end the thumping turned out to be the strange, underwaterish rhythm of 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport', coming from a small transistor radio belonging to a fed-up-looking North Countryman with a big family and sand in his turn-ups.