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carlike

carlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a car (road vehicle).

Adjective

carlike (comparative more carlike, superlative most carlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a car (road vehicle).
    • Even among import brands where you’d expect die-hard wagonistas to be lurking, crossovers threaten to snuff their more carlike siblings: Audi sold nearly 21,000 of its big Q7 crossover in 2007, compared with barely 2,800 of its sprightly A4 Avant wagon and just 758 of the larger A6 wagon.2009 July 12, Lawrence Ulrich, “What’s Become of the Wagon?”, in New York Times

Forms of carlike

comparativemore carlike
superlativemost carlike

Origin of carlike

From car + -like.

Questions about carlike

What does carlike mean?
Carlike means resembling or characteristic of a car (road vehicle).
What part of speech is carlike?
Carlike is an adjective.

Words near carlike in the dictionary

  1. carlhintzeite
  2. Carli
  3. carlicue
  4. carlicues
  5. Carlie
  6. carlike
  7. Carlile
  8. Carliles
  9. Carlill
  10. Carlills
  11. carlin

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