Meaning

1 senses
  1. Resembling a token; symbolic; (by extension) insignificant; nominal.

    a tokenish gesture

More definitions
  • insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)

Origin

From token + -ish.

From token + -ish.

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Forms

more tokenish, most tokenish
Comparativemore tokenish Lesson
Superlativemost tokenish Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal):nominaltoken

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtokenism

See also

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