batlike

1. adjective

a) Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.

The most famous of these Los Caprichos is “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (plate 43), which has a sky full of batlike creatures.

b) Similar to that of a bat

He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a batlike soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness.

2. adverb

In the manner of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.

... they cling, like creepers or women, to the nearest support, to fly from that corroding ennui and listlessness, those tumults of the mind, which flit batlike amid the golden-groined ceilings, and cannot be dispelled by the lictor guard.