caretlike
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editcaretlike (comparative more caretlike, superlative most caretlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a caret.
- 1947, Austin Hobart Clark, Ailsa McGown Clark, A monograph of the existing crinoids:
- 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...
- 1968, Maggie Rennert, A moment in Camelot:
- When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his.
- 1992, Patrick Huyghe, Columbus was last:
- And caretlike omission signs have been found on Greek documents dating back at least as far as the fourth century BC.