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Definition: Liked |
LikedAdjective1. Found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form; "a well-liked teacher". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "liked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Antonym: disliked (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Liked |
| English words defined with "liked": fitment ♦ hagberry ♦ pony ♦ quaintness ♦ rhetorical question, ride ♦ sit ♦ To try on, toasted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "liked": Altair 8800 ♦ Bacbuc, Beghards, blit ♦ chiclet keyboard ♦ Frog ♦ Gallicenæ ♦ Ismenias ♦ Lemnian Women ♦ Perdrix, toujours Perdrix ♦ Water Tasting like Wine. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I always liked going South, somehow it feels like going downhill (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Yeah, I think it would be fair to say I liked Andy from the start (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) I thought we liked stripes this year (101 Dalmatians; writing credit: John Hughes) It's like he wants us to be liked by everyone (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) I liked the first one more (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman) | |
Lyrics | Dear jonathan I liked you too much I used to be attracted to boys who would lie (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) He never really liked me anyway (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus) That way that she liked her love to feel (Ebony Eyes; performing artist: Bob Welch; writing credit: Bob Welch) She would have liked to say she loved the man (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg) I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear) | |
Clever | He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) Jamie Really Liked to Eat (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Just a minute, Captain Barney hailed. I liked that speech fust-rate, but when anybody starts spinnin' yarns about worms eatin' up through a brand new vessel's hull, I say it couldn't happen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Overpowered by the sky" by Nathan Sudds Commentary: "Powerlines overhead in a field, north Ajax, Ontario, Canada - scenes like this cause me to be amazed by God's creation :) Hope someone can use it, resolution isn't as good as I would have liked <br> <br>Shot on a Canon S10 digital cam (2.0" | "Green bush" by Job Genders Commentary: "A picture of a "bruidsluier" as it is called in dutch. I liked the picture because of its full-color appearance." |
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| Author | Quotation |
George E. Allen | Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. |
Michel de Montaigne | Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said: "Somebody else's." |
Peter De Vries | Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. |
Sir Henry Wotton | He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But if all the world shall observe pretences of one kind, and actions of another; arts used to elude the law, and the trust of prerogative (which is an arbitrary power in some things left in the prince's hand to do good, not harm to the people) employed contrary to the end for which it was given: if the people shall find the ministers and subordinate magistrates chosen suitable to such ends, and favoured, or laid by, proportionably as they promote or oppose them: if they see several experiments made of arbitrary power, and that religion underhand favoured, (tho' publicly proclaimed against) which is readiest to introduce it; and the operators in it supported, as much as may be; and when that cannot be done, yet approved still, and liked the better: if a long train of actions shew the councils all tending that way; how can a man any more hinder himself from being persuaded in his own mind, which way things are going; or from casting about how to save himself, than he could from believing the captain of the ship he was in, was carrying him, and the rest of the company, to Algiers, when he found him always steering that course, though cross winds, leaks in his ship, and want of men and provisions did often force him to turn his course another way for some time, which he steadily returned to again, as soon as the wind, weather, and other circumstances would let him? Sect. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Contact | Carl Sagan | She came to admire him so much that his love for her affected her own self-esteem: She liked herself better because of him. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I felt the remark was not so sensible as I should have liked it to be. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In his walks he liked to carry a gun, though he seldom used it. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He liked to sit near him at the fire, looking up at his dark fierce face |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma liked them shoes |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some things you may never have liked before may taste good to you during treatment. (references) | |
Business | American companies and their equipment and services are well known and well liked by Romanian specialists. (references) | |
Economic History | Panama | However, U.S. products are well liked, are considered to be of excellent quality, and competitively priced. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them fricasees, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective -- "brekekex-koax"; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof -- a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Anthony Quinn | Yeah, yeah. And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. |
Bill Clinton | Well, I give Andy and Scott and Joe a lot of credit, but the truth is I've always really liked and admired Bob Dole. |
Carol Burnett | You know, five days a week. And he would personally audition young new people, and if he liked them he'd book them on the Friday show, which was an hour-and-a-half show, so they could do their stuff. So that's how I first met him. |
David Gest | To be honest with you, I liked her, I respected her, but I wasn't somebody who had any of her records. Now I have all of her records. |
Gene Wilder | I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. |
Jodie Foster | I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen. |
Lynda Carter | Not really binges. Started off just drinking like everybody else. I never really liked alcohol. And then I didn't do very well with it. |
Marlo Thomas | Oh, three years, I never wanted to be married, so it took a while, for me to believe that I, you know, would have liked being married. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | While the budget deficits during my term are higher than I would have liked, their size is determined for the most part by economic conditions. |
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| "Liked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 73.17% of the time. "Liked" is used about 4,602 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 73.17% | 3,367 | 2,857 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 26.83% | 1,235 | 6,328 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,602 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "liked": become liked ♦ being liked ♦ desperate to be liked ♦ well liked. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "liked": well-liked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
liked | 15 |
always best i liked that | 10 |
always best i liked lyrics that | 7 |
him him ld liked u | 6 |
href i liked look profile take | 6 |
as it liked we wrestling | 5 |
book elvis liked read | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "liked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Catalan | agradat. (various references) | |
Chinese | 喜欢 (fond, liking, Pleasing). (various references) | |
German | mochte, gemocht haben, gemocht, beliebt (beloved, loved, popular, prevalent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | נוח לבריות (popular, well liked). (various references) | |
Italian | piacque (liked him). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 人の好む所となる (to be liked by people), 持てる (to be popular, to be well liked). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとのこのむところとなる (to be liked by people), もてる (to be popular, to be well liked). (various references) | |
Korean | 좋아하는 (Preferred). (various references) | |
Malagasy | tianao (liked by you). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ikedlay.(various references) | |
Russian | любить (affect, be fond of, care for, like, likes, likes to, love). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | omiliti (become liked, endear). (various references) | |
Swedish | gillade. (various references) | |
Turkish | sevilen (lovable, loved, popular). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Bromus secalinus, Cypriniformes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | IdonteV de oi uioi tou qeou taV qugateraV twn anqrwpwn oti kalai eisin elabon eautoiV gunaikaV apo paswn wn exelexanto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Videntes filii Dei filias eorum quod essent pulchrae acceperunt uxores sibi ex omnibus quas elegerant |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða gesawon Godes bearn, ðæt wæron gode men, manna dohtra ðæt hi wæron wlitige, ond namon him wif of eallum ðam ðe hi gecuron. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The sones of God, seynge the dowytris of men that thei weren faire, token wyues to hem of alle the whiche thei chosen. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The sonnes of God sawe the doughters of men that they were fayre and toke vnto them wyves which they best liked amoge the all. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all whom they chose. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Nga sa pagkakita sa mga anak nga lalake sa Dios nga ang mga anak nga babaye sa mga tawo nga sila mga maanyag, nangasawa sila sa tanan nilang napili. |
| Croatian | opaze sinovi Božji da su kæeri ljudske pristale, pa ih uzimahu sebi za žene koje su god htjeli. |
| Danish | fik Gudssønnerne Øje på Menneskedøtrenes Skønhed, og de tog: så mange af dem, som de lystede, til Hustruer. |
| Dutch | Dat Gods zonen de dochteren der mensen aanzagen, dat zij schoon waren, en zij namen zich vrouwen uit allen, die zij verkozen hadden. |
| Finnish | huomasivat Jumalan pojat ihmisten tyttäret ihaniksi ja ottivat vaimoikseen kaikki, jotka he parhaiksi katsoivat. |
| French | les fils de Dieu virent que les filles des hommes étaient belles, et ils en prirent pour femmes parmi toutes celles qu`ils choisirent. |
| German | da sahen die Kinder Gottes nach den Töchtern der Menschen, wie sie schön waren, und nahmen zu Weibern, welche sie wollten. |
| Hungarian | És láták az Istennek fiai az emberek leányait, hogy szépek azok, és vevének magoknak feleségeket mind azok közûl, kiket megkedvelnek vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | makhluk-makhluk ilahi melihat bahwa gadis-gadis itu cantik-cantik. Lalu mereka mengawini gadis-gadis yang mereka sukai. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka dipandanglah oleh anak laki-laki Allah akan anak perempuan manusia sebab elok parasnya, lalu diambilnyalah bagi dirinya akan bini barangsiapa yang disukainya. |
| Italian | i figli di Dio videro che le figlie degli uomini erano belle e ne presero per mogli quante ne vollero. |
| Maori | Ka kite nga tama a te Atua i nga tamahine a te tangata, he ataahua; na ka tango ratou i a ratou i pai ai o ratou katoa, hei wahine ma ratou. |
| Norwegian | så Guds sønner at menneskenes døtre var vakre; og de tok sig hustruer, hvem de hadde lyst til. |
| Portuguese | viram os filhos de Deus que as filhas dos homens eram formosas; e tomaram para si mulheres de todas as que escolheram. |
| Rumanian | fiii lui Dumnezeu au vqzut cq fetele oamenilor erau frumoase; wi din toate wi-au luat de neveste pe acelea pe cari wi le-au ales. |
| Spanish | Y viendo los hijos de Dios que las hijas de los hombres eran bellas, tomaron para sí mujeres, escogiendo entre todas. |
| Swedish | sågo Guds söner* att människornas döttrar voro fagra, och de togo till hustrur dem som de funno mest behag i. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "liked": disliked, misliked. (additional references) | |
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"Liked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iked, ilked, Ilker, Klokeda, laked, Lefkada, licea, liced, licet, Liceu, Lichedom, Liekkio, lieud, lifed, likaer, liket, liketo, likety, likew, Liki, likle, liped, lised, Liskov, lited, lixed, luke, luked, lukked, lysed, pliked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "liked" (pronounced lī"kt) |
| 4 | l ī" k t | disliked. |
| 3 | -ī" k t | biked, hiked, psyched, spiked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-k-l" | |
-1 letter: deil, deli, diel, dike, idle, lied, like. | |
-2 letters: del, die, eld, elk, ilk, kid, led, lei, lek, lid, lie. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, el, id, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-k-l" | |
+1 letter: bilked, keloid, killed, kilned, kilted, kindle, licked, linked, milked, silked. | |
+2 letters: bedlike, blinked, budlike, clicked, clinked, dislike, doglike, flicked, godlike, keloids, kibbled, kidlike, killdee, kindled, kindler, kindles, kirtled, kittled, likened, nickled, pickled, plinked, podlike, rodlike, sickled, skilled, skirled, slicked, slinked, tickled, tinkled, winkled. | |
+3 letters: alkoxide, beadlike, birdlike, cordlike, crinkled, darklier, dawnlike, deerlike, devilkin, disclike, dishlike, disklike, disliked, disliker, dislikes, domelike, dovelike, drumlike, dunelike, dustlike, enkindle, goadlike, handlike, herdlike, hoodlike, keloidal, khedival, killdeer, killdees, kindlers, kindless, kindlier, ladylike, lakeside, lardlike, lordlike, milkshed, milkweed, misliked, nickeled, prickled, reedlike, rekindle, relinked, sandlike, seedlike, shedlike, sicklied, sidewalk, silkweed, skiffled, stickled, tidelike, toadlike, trickled, twinkled, unlicked, unlinked, weedlike, wickedly, wrinkled. | |
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