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Definition of Alike
1. Adverb. Equally. "Parents and teachers alike demanded reforms"
2. Adjective. Having the same or similar characteristics. "Friends are generally alike in background and taste"
Attributes: Alikeness, Likeness, Similitude
Derivative terms: Alikeness, Likeness, Similarity
Antonyms: Unalike
3. Adverb. In a like manner. "They walk alike"
Definition of Alike
1. a. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
2. adv. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.
Definition of Alike
1. Adjective. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. ¹
2. Adverb. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alike
1. having close resemblance [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alike
Literary usage of Alike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"... for you have his whitely look, a cast like his with your eye, and your speech
is much alike. FEEBLE. Most have said so that have known us both: and, ..."
2. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"... the same irradiations of planets, aspects alike, ... in that same altitude,
mountainous alike, extreme cold ..."
3. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... But hifs for hifs return'd with forked tongue To forked tongue, for now were
all transform'd alike, ..."
4. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1895)
"Unhappy are the counsellors of a Prince who wants fortitude and perseverance
alike in good and in evil." CHAPTER XV. And yet he thinks, — ha, 1m, ha, ha, ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"... to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but
there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. ..."
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