Dictionary

sharklike en · ADJ

Etymology

From shark + -like.

Meanings

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. (of a fish) Cartilaginous.

Forms

Deriveds

unsharklike