headlike

Shaped like noggin

Resembling or shaped like a head: a headlike knob on the end of the bone, The mushroom's headlike cap emerged from the soil.

The word appears mainly in technical or descriptive contexts where something's rounded, bulbous form suggests a head.

anatomy

skull

Head's bone casing

temples · occiput · braincase · parietal · frontal · sphenoid · ethmoid · mastoid · nasal · orbit

shape

round

Curved like circle

globular · knobbed · domed · contour · profile · silhouette · outline · protuberance · knob · cap

resemblance

similar

Resembling another thing

suggestive · evocative · reminiscent · approximating · approaching · quasi · pseudo · semblance · likeness · echo

Opposites
shape/form

headliketapered

Gradually narrowing in width

pointed · elongated · needle-like · conical · filamentous

structural completeness

headlikeheadless

Lacking a head

taillike · footlike · undifferentiated

Family

like, head, heading, heads, headed, heady, headless, behead, headings

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G