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sharklike

sharklike adjective: similar to a shark; like a shark.

Adjective

sharklike (comparative more sharklike, superlative most sharklike)

  1. Similar to a shark; like a shark
    • They wallowed lazily, nibbling bits of sea grass, their dorsal fins sometimes cutting through the water, sharklike.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 125
    • The first reference to the shark is lost in antiquity; there is an aboriginal drawing in Australia that shows a sharklike creature in the act of eating a man.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 14
  2. Similar to that of a shark.
    • a sharklike grin; sharklike teeth; a sharklike frenzy
  3. Cartilaginous.

Forms of sharklike

comparativemore sharklike
superlativemost sharklike

Origin of sharklike

From shark + -like.

Words formed from sharklike

Questions about sharklike

What does sharklike mean?
Sharklike means similar to a shark; like a shark.
What part of speech is sharklike?
Sharklike is an adjective.

Words near sharklike in the dictionary

  1. sharkish
  2. sharkishly
  3. sharkless
  4. sharklet
  5. sharklets
  6. sharklike
  7. sharkling
  8. sharklings
  9. sharkmeat
  10. sharkminnow
  11. sharkminnows

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