bearlike

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   resembling a bear in appearance, movement, strength, or temperament

   The animal left broad, bearlike tracks in the snow.

A transparent compound of bear + -like. Bear descends from Old English bera and its Germanic relatives; -like comes from Old English lic ("body or form") and developed the sense "having the form or qualities of." Bearlike can therefore describe either physical resemblance or bear-associated behavior.

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