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Definition of Likable

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 Likable

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

Definition of Likable

1. Adjective. Capable of being liked. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a person) Having qualities tending to result in being liked; friendly, personable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Likable

1. pleasant [adj] - See also: pleasant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Likable

ligulated ligule ligules liguliflorous liguloid ligure ligures ligustrin ligustrum ligustrums

lii liii lik't likabilities likability likable (current term) likableness likablenesses likably likasite

like like-for-like like-for-like sales like-minded like-mindedness like a bat out of hell like a bee in clover like a bull in a china shop like a cat in a strange garret like a cat on a hot tin roof

Literary usage of Likable

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

1. Recollections, Personal and Literary by Richard Henry Stoddard (1903)
"XVIII "THIS likable YOUNG POET" TO go back a little, there appeared in the columns of the New York Tribune, in 1859, two poems which attracted a great deal ..."

2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"... we instinctively search through "his Dutch and Puritan ancestries to see where came in the strain that made this Yankee Frenchman of so likable a type. ..."

3. Modes and Morals by Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920)
"Mr. Wells's men, when they are likable at all, are likable for some ... When the syndicate's men are likable, it is for sheer pity, because they are such ..."

4. Business English and Correspondence by Roy Davis, Clarence Hart Lingham (1921)
"For example, the thought of the first sentence may be expressed in any one of the following ways: An art worth studying for its own sake is being likable. ..."

5. Success in Business by William Ganson Rose (1913)
"A young man does deserve credit for being likable and for having a personality that attracts. He has worked and worked hard to build up such a personality, ..."

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