Definition of "lakelike" [lakelike]

• Resembling a lake or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "But those who consider Tchaikovsky to be a composer of more than treacle will wish that Dudamel had not made the quiet ocean portrayed at the start of "The Tempest" quite so lakelike, or the funereal close of "Romeo and Juliet" quite so matter-of-fact."
• "The “Butterfly Garden” was a narrow, glass-walled conservatory full of exotic plants, overlooking the greater basin of the Charles River: the wide, lakelike head of the Charles that fed off Boston Harbor, before it narrowed to the icy glut that had coughed up Vasco."
• "Certain roads were built like natural arroyos, with dips in the middle to channel the runoff into the big parks, like A Street Park, which for the majority of its historical life had been a buffalo wallow and filled up, lakelike, when it rained."