caretlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a caret.
Example Sentences
- "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..."
- "When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his."
- "And caretlike omission signs have been found on Greek documents dating back at least as far as the fourth century BC."
Etymology
From caret + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more caretlike (comparative)
most caretlike (superlative)