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bracketlike

bracketlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bracket.

Adjective

bracketlike (comparative more bracketlike, superlative most bracketlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bracket.
    • For the past decade, the politics of the country has been defined by this map — a conservative heartland and two bracketlike liberal coasts.2008 March 30, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “A Case of the Blues”, in New York Times

Forms of bracketlike

comparativemore bracketlike
superlativemost bracketlike

Origin of bracketlike

From bracket + -like.

Questions about bracketlike

What does bracketlike mean?
Bracketlike means resembling or characteristic of a bracket.
What part of speech is bracketlike?
Bracketlike is an adjective.

Words near bracketlike in the dictionary

  1. bracketer
  2. bracketers
  3. bracketing
  4. bracketings
  5. bracketless
  6. bracketlike
  7. bracketologist
  8. bracketologists
  9. bracketology
  10. bracketry
  11. brackets

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