like
//laɪ̯k//
Forms
- present (v1)
- like
- past (v2)
- liked
- past participle (v3)
- liked
- present participle
- liking
- 3rd person singular
- likes
- Comparative
- more like
- Superlative
- most like
- Plural
- likes
Definitions
1.To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
- I like skiing in winter very much.
- I like the Seattle Mariners this season.
- He may either go or stay, as he best likes.
2.To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
- People in Washington like to work out!
- She likes to keep herself physically fit.
- I like to go to the dentist every six months.
3.To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
- I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
- I was dating someone I liked, but not enough to marry.
4.To want, desire. See also would like.
- May I leave now? ~ If you like.
- We could go to the museum if you like.
- I don't like to disturb him when he's working.
1.An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
- Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
- Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.
2.Something that a person likes (prefers).
- Tell me your likes and dislikes.
1.Similar.
- My partner and I have like minds.
- The two cats were as like as though they had come from the same litter.
- I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab, through which her life had ebbed away.
2.Likely; probable.
- She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils.
- But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
- Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #73
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Related words
Etymology
Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).