ostrichlike adjective2 •Resembling or characteristic of an ostrich; struthian •Ignoring an imminent threat or unpleasant reality; head-in-the-sandShould our response to these paradoxes of the modern world be to maintain our comfort level with an ostrichlike denial of the evidence, or to hold an alarmist and paranoid discourse? — 2009 formsmore ostrichlike · most ostrichlike