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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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5,152 words match “LIKE”

BLOCKLIKE a.
Like a block; stupid.
BUSINESSLIKE a.
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
CATLIKE a.
Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.
CHILDLIKE a.
ld, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.
CHRISTIANLIKE a.
Becoming to a Christian. A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.
CHRISTLIKE a.
Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n.
CHURCHLIKE a.
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
CLERKLIKE a.
Scholarlike. [Obs.] Shak.
CLOCKLIKE a.
Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.
COURTLIKE a.
After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
COWLIKE a.
Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
DEATHLIKE a. 2 definitions
Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope.
DISLIKE v. 4 definitions
To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.
DISLIKEFUL a.
Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.
DISLIKELIHOOD n.
The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
DISLIKEN v.
To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] Shak.
DISLIKENESS n.
Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.
DISLIKER n.
One who dislikes or disrelishes.
DOVELIKE a.
Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. Longfellow.
DRAGONLIKE a.
Like a dragon. Shak.
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