lizard-like
Resembling a reptile
Lizard-like describes something resembling a lizard in appearance or movement—scaly, cold-blooded, or moving with quick, darting motions.
The term often carries unflattering connotations when applied to people, suggesting reptilian coldness or unsettling features: His lizard-like eyes watched her without blinking.
The creature moved with lizard-like speed across the rocks.
Covered with thin plates
- reptilianOf snakes and lizards
- cold-bloodedUnfeeling or externally heated
- slitheringSmooth limbless locomotion
- baskingWarming oneself pleasantly
darting · camouflaged · lidless · forked-tongue · clawed · sprawling · crawling · sunbathing
Lizard or lizard-like
- crocodilianOrder of large reptiles
- dinosaurianOf prehistoric giant reptiles
- serpentineCurving in repeated bends
- amphibianDual-habitat cold-blooded vertebrate
primordial · ancient · leathery · wrinkled · textured · mottled · patterned · striped
Carefully attentive, observant
- stillUnmoving, or continuing
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- patientAble to wait calmly
- sunningExposing oneself to warmth
motionless · wary · opportunistic · stalking · waiting · observant · calculating · detached
Low temperature state
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- unblinkingNot closing one's eyes
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
- inhumanDevoid of mercy
alien · sinister · cunning · slippery · shifty · creepy · unsettling · predatory
scaly
Covered with thin plates
- reptilianOf snakes and lizards
- cold-bloodedUnfeeling or externally heated
- slitheringSmooth limbless locomotion
basking · darting · camouflaged · lidless · forked-tongue · clawed · sprawling · crawling · sunbathing · skittering
saurian
Lizard or lizard-like
- crocodilianOrder of large reptiles
- dinosaurianOf prehistoric giant reptiles
- serpentineCurving in repeated bends
amphibian · primordial · ancient · leathery · wrinkled · textured · mottled · patterned · striped · spotted
watchful
Carefully attentive, observant
sunning · motionless · wary · opportunistic · stalking · waiting · observant · calculating · detached · unemotional
cold
Low temperature state
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- unblinkingNot closing one's eyes
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
inhuman · alien · sinister · cunning · slippery · shifty · creepy · unsettling · predatory · watchful