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5,152 words match “LIKE”

UNLIKE a. 2 definitions
Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.
UNLIKELIHOOD n.
Absence of likelihood.
UNLIKELINESS n.
The quality or state of being unlikely.
UNLIKELY a. 4 definitions
Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.
UNLIKEN v.
To make unlike; to dissimilate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
UNLIKENESS n.
The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity. Tennyson.
WARLIKE a. 2 definitions
Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition. Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men. Shak.
WARLIKENESS n.
Quality of being warlike.
WIFELIKE a.
Of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman. " Wifelike government." Shak.
WISE-LIKE a.
Resembling that which is wise or sensible; judicious. The only wise-like thing I heard anybody say. Sir W. Scott.
WOMANLIKE a.
Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
WORKMANLIKE a.
Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
YEOMANLIKE a.
Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.
YLICHE; YLIKE a.
Like; alike. [Obs.] "All . . . yliche good." Chaucer.
ABACUS n.
, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.
ABDOMINAL a.
belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.
ABDOMINOUS a.
Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
ABECEDARIAN; ABECEDARY a.
; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.
ABHOR v.
To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.
ABHORRENCE n.
Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
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