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Definition of Likeable

1. Adjective. (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings. "The sympathetic characters in the play"

2. Adjective. Easy to like; agreeable. "An attractive and likable young man"

Definition of Likeable

1. a. See Likable.

Definition of Likeable

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of likable) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Likeable

1. likable [adj] - See also: likable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Likeable

like the back end of a bus like the clappers like the devil like the new time like there is no tomorrow like this like thunder like turkeys voting for Christmas like turkeys voting for an early Christmas like two peas in a pod

like unto like water like water off a duck's back like white on rice likeability likeable (current term) likeableness likeably liked likee

likeful likehood likehoods likejacking likelemba likeless likelier likelies likeliest likelihood

Literary usage of Likeable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ten Years in Washington: Or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital by Mary Clemmer (1882)
"... Reception—Feeling Good-Natured—Looking After One's Friends—Ready to Forgive—Mr. Grant's " likeable Side "—The East Room on a Reception Day—"The Nation's ..."

2. Teaching Tips: 105 Ways to Increase Motivation & Learningby Spence Rogers by Spence Rogers (1999)
"If the only thing that appears likeable at the moment is the color of his or her socks, then focus on the color of his or her socks! ..."

3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"He must be an exceedingly likeable man. . . . They are to leave Florence very soon, ... likeable ..."

4. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"He must be an exceedingly likeable man. . . . They are to leave Florence very soon, and are going to Normandy, I think he said, for the rest of the summer. ..."

5. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"He must be an exceedingly likeable man. . . . They are to leave Florence very soon, and are going to Normandy, I think he said, for the rest of the summer. ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"A man may be very likeable and a little ridiculous. lt is not magnetism, for he may be pre-eminently likeable and have no influence whatever. ..."

7. My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer (1915)
"Not all famous leaders are likeable, as every world traveller knows. They all have the magnetism of force, which is quite another thing from the magnetism ..."

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