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noncatlike

adj

Etymology

From non- + catlike.

  1. derived from catta
  2. derived from cattus
  3. inherited from *kattuz✻
  4. inherited from *kattu✻
  5. inherited from catt
  6. inherited from cat
  7. suffixed as catlike — “cat + like”
  8. formed as noncatlike — “non- + catlike”

Definitions

  1. Not catlike

    • [...] so we'll go look out the window to see what's up and let her in (through the window), and the look on her face and her eyes is so...noncatlike...
    • Anna held the cat for a long time. The cat clung to her and then fell asleep against her chest—a deep, noncatlike sleep of relief and exhaustion.
    • So although we can identify patterns that behave like cats in the wave function, there are also patterns that initially behave like cats, but later start behaving in distinctly noncatlike ways, for example, by spontaneously becoming a gas.

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