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packlike

packlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a pack (in various senses).

Adjective

packlike (comparative more packlike, superlative most packlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a pack (in various senses).
    • Moreover, bankers and investors say, the strategies employed tend to be not only duplicable but broadly followed — the result being a packlike tendency that has helped increase market volatility and, for some hedge funds, has led to losses in the last month.2007 August 13, Landon Thomas Jr., “Pack Mentality Among Hedge Funds Fuels Market Volatility”, in New York Times

Forms of packlike

comparativemore packlike
superlativemost packlike

Origin of packlike

From pack + -like.

Questions about packlike

What does packlike mean?
Packlike means resembling or characteristic of a pack (in various senses).
What part of speech is packlike?
Packlike is an adjective.

Words near packlike in the dictionary

  1. packinghouses
  2. packingless
  3. packings
  4. Packingtown
  5. packless
  6. packlike
  7. packmaker
  8. packmakers
  9. packmaking
  10. packman
  11. packmaster

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