Word Meanings - LIKABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.

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• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• LIKIN
  A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. "Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any
• ATTRACTIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• ATTRACTOR
  One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• PERSONA
  See 8
• PERSONABLE
  1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
• LIKE-MINDED
  Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.
• LIKEWISE
  In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also. Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. 37. For he seeth that wise men die; likewise the fool and the brutish person perish. Ps. xlix. 10.
• PERSONALLY
  1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• COWLIKE
  Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• MAPLIKE
  Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• LIFELIKE
  Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness, n. Poe.
• CLOCKLIKE
  Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.