Resembling or having the characteristics of a card, such as being flat, stiff, or rectangular in shape.
Compound of card (from Old Norse korta) and like (from Old English gelic), combining a physical object with a suffix meaning 'similar to.'
This humble adjective reveals how English speakers constantly invent new words by combining familiar ones—'cardlike' might describe everything from cardboard to a flat piece of plastic, showing language's flexibility.
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