LIKE meaning: Favorable feelings towards someone, something

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word like:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

like: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
-like, like: Merriam-Webster
-like, like, like, the like: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
like, like, like: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-like, like, the like: Collins English Dictionary
like, the like: Vocabulary.com
LIke, Like, like, like: Wordnik
-like, like: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Like, -like, like: Wiktionary
-like, like: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
-like, like: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
like: Infoplease Dictionary
Like, -like, like, the like: Dictionary.com
like (adj.), like (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
-like, like: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Like (SQL), Like (TV series), Like (disambiguation), Like (novel), Like (producer), Like, The Like: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Like: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
like: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
like, the like: Rhymezone
like: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
like: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Like (a person, thing or activity): American-Britih Dictionary
-like, like: MyWord.info
like: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
like, the like: FreeDictionary.org
like, the like: Mnemonic Dictionary
like: TheFreeDictionary.com
like: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
the like: TheFreeDictionary.com
like: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Like (preposition): Legal dictionary
like: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

like: Netlingo
like: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

LIKE: Acronym Finder
like: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

like, like: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
The Like: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To please (same meaning as above but with subject and object reversed).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To derive pleasure [with of or by or with ‘from someone or something’].
▸ verb:  To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
▸ verb:  To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
▸ verb:  (with 'would' and in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.
▸ verb:  (Internet, social media, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
▸ verb:  Of inanimate objects:
▸ verb:  (informal, personification) To be prone to.
▸ verb:  (informal, chiefly in the negative) Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
▸ noun:  (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
▸ adjective:  Similar.
▸ adjective:  (archaic or Scotland, Southern US) Likely; probable.
▸ adjective:  (Scotland, Southern US, otherwise archaic, usually with to) inclined (to), prone (to).
▸ adverb:  (obsolete, colloquial) Likely.
▸ adverb:  (archaic or rare) In a like or similar manner.
▸ noun:  (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
▸ noun:  (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
▸ verb:  (chiefly dialectal, intransitive) To be likely.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

wish, care, ish, like-minded, same, suchlike, similar, equivalent, alike, equal, more...

Opposite:

dislike, hate, detest, loathe, abhor

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