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caretlike

caretlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a caret.

Adjective

caretlike (comparative more caretlike, superlative most caretlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a caret.
    • On the succeeding segments the stem of the T becomes progressively shorter until the T is reduced to a caretlike angle with the apex inward...1947, Austin Hobart Clark, Ailsa McGown Clark, A monograph of the existing crinoids
    • When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his.1968, Maggie Rennert, A moment in Camelot

Forms of caretlike

comparativemore caretlike
superlativemost caretlike

Origin of caretlike

From caret + -like.

Questions about caretlike

What does caretlike mean?
Caretlike means resembling or characteristic of a caret.
What part of speech is caretlike?
Caretlike is an adjective.

Words near caretlike in the dictionary

  1. caretakerships
  2. caretakes
  3. caretaking
  4. caretakings
  5. careth
  6. caretlike
  7. caretook
  8. caretroside
  9. carets
  10. carettochelyid
  11. carettochelyids

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