Liking

Definition: Liking

Liking

Noun

1. A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "liking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Liking

Desire

Mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity; willingness; liking, love, fondness, relish.

Love

Noun: love; fondness; Adjective: liking; inclination; (desire); regard, dilection, admiration, fancy.

Pain

Adjective: causing pleasure; Verb: laetificant; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory; (good).

Pleasure

Be pleased; with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure; n. from; take pleasure; n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over; (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of.

Crosswords: Liking

I think Mongo here's taken a liking to you. (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

The next step should be to your liking, Chris (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

I live for liking you. (Pretty in Pink; writing credit: John Hughes.)

And I'm not liking the view (Inside the Osmonds; writing credit: Matt Dorff)

Avoiding a subpoena is not liking to travel (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick)

I'm not used to liking that (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

There are two ways to be contented: one is liking what you do, and the other is doing what you like. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Finding Peace: Letting Go and Liking It (reference)

• Growing Up Country and Liking It! (reference)

• Liking, Loving, and Relating (reference)

• Living on Less and Liking It More: How to Reduce Your Spending and Increase Your Living (reference)

• Seeing What I Like and Liking What I See (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Liking Yourself Inside and Out (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• You Can't Help Liking... (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They intended to bring up the child to their liking.

And there was liking between these two.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Argentine clothing preferences have traditionally leaned toward European-based design; however, American clothing is generally accepted for its good price/quality ratio and in the casual and sports apparel sector, U.S. suppliers should do well. Adolescents have taken a strong liking to comfortable, loose fitting casual wear whereas adults are more inclined to elegant casual attire. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

However, there is an increasing demand for U.S.-made goods and a liking for things "American" in general. (references)

Worker Rights

Palau

The freedom of foreign workers to leave employment situations not to their liking may be hindered by verbal threats or the withholding of passports and return tickets to the country in which they were recruited. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "liking": have a liking for ♦ have a liking for smb. ♦ liking for sweets ♦ on liking ♦ special liking ♦ take a liking to ♦ to one's liking. Additional references.

Beginning with "liking": liking-auntie-kate.

Ending with "liking": tolstoy-liking.

Albanian

simpati (Favor, favour, fellow feeling, fondness, sympathy), shije (Flavor, flavour, gusto, likes, palate, relish, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste), pëlqim (acceptance, accord, bent, compliance, consent, endearment, Favor, favour, gusto, love, partiality, pleasure, readiness), dëshirë (aim, appetite, craving, desire, hunger, looking for, love, notion, penchant, pleasure, prayer, want, wish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), ‏ولع (attach, fondness, love, partiality, passion, penchant, predilection), ‏حب (attach, cereal, like, lose one's heart, love, passion, pip, seed), ‏دلال (crier, fondness). (various references)

Breton

grad. (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), симпатия (bully, sympathy), разположение (collocation, disposal, disposition, emplacement, lay, mood, placement, situation, tune), вкус (choice, discernment, fancy, flavour, inclination, palate, penchant, relish, sapor, savor, savour, smack, stomach, taste, tincture, tinge), наклонност (bent, habitude, inclination, liability, set, strain, vocation). (various references)

Chinese 

喜欢 (fond, liked, Pleasing). (various references)

Czech

záliba (fondness, hobby, indulgence, predilection, preference, relish, speciality, specialty, strain, taste). (various references)

Finnish

mieltymys (affection, attachment). (various references)

French

tropisme, penchant, inclination (list), affection. (various references)

German

mögend. (various references)

Greek 

αρέσκεια (pleasure, satisfaction). (various references)

Hebrew 

חבוב (affection, esteem, love), חב�" (affection, attachment, esteem, fondness, regard, taste), � טי�" (bent, deviation, disposition, inclination, leaning, penchant, pitch, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rake, set, slant, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend). (various references)

Hungarian

vonzalom (affection, leaning, propensity), szeretet (affection, attachment, fondness, love, loving-kindness), vonzódás (affinity, attraction), kedv (appetite, cue, humor, inclination, mind, pleasure, spirit, zest). (various references)

Indonesian

penyendiri (liking to be alone, loner, solitary). (various references)

Italian

simpatia (compassion, pleasantness, shine, sympathy), predilezione (fondness, partiality, predilection), inclinazione (addiction, aptitude, assessment, bend, bent, bias, cant, dip, disposition, fancy, gradient, hang, inclination, lean, penchant, pitch, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, stoop, taste, tendency, tilt, tip), gusto (enjoyment, fancy, Flavor, flavour, gusto, kick, palate, relish, savor, savour, smack, spice, taste, zest), gradimento (acceptance, approval, pleasure, satisfaction). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

嗜好 (preference, taste), 好き　 (fondness, love), 好み (choice, taste), 好き (fondness, love). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すき (chance or opportunity, chink, elegant pursuits, emptiness, fondness, gap, interval, love, plough, refined taste, room, spade, time to spare, vacant), し�"う (aim, carrying out, directional, draft of a poem, enforcing, execution, intention, making an attempt, one's own thoughts or opinion, OO, personal conduct, preference, supremacy, supreme, supreme filial piety, taste, thought, tooth tartar, waiting upon), �"のみ (berry, choice, fruit, nut, taste). (various references)

Korean 

좋아함 (Preferring). (various references)

Manx

liaee. (various references)

Norwegian

forkjærlighet. (various references)

Pig Latin

ikinglay.(various references)

Portuguese

simpatia (affection, appreciation, consensus, empathy, fancy, fantasy, feeling, fellow feeling, phantasy, sympathy), preferência (alternative, choice, fellow feeling, like, option, palate, preference), inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, tendency, tip, trend, vocation, will), gosto (dribblet, fellow feeling, flair, flavor, flavour, fondness, gust, gusto, like, palate, pleasure, propensity, raciness, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, spice, style, taste, tooth, treat, zest), afeto (affection, attachment, devotion, endearment, fellow feeling, fondness, infatuation, love, regard, tenderness), afeição (affection, devotion, disposal, fancy, fantasy, fellow feeling, friendship, goodwill, inclination, love, phantasy, tendency). (various references)

Romanian

slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, defect, droop, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, leanness, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness), simpatie (approval, attraction, congeniality, countenance, fellow feeling, love, popularity, regard, sympathy), preferinţã (choice, particular, preference, suffrage), plac, plãcere (amusement, delight, enjoyment, gusto, joy, mind, palate, pleasure, pleasuring, prize, satisfaction, unction, willingness), gust (desire, disposition, Flavor, flavour, gust, gusto, palate, relish, savor, savour, smack, taste, zest), înclinare (batter, bent, bias, cant, cast, declension, dip, fancy, hang, inclination, lean, leaning, lurch, obliquity, pitching, slope, tilt). (various references)

Russian 

склонность (aptitude, bent, disposition, fancy, flair, inclination, inclination for, inclination to, leaning, lurch, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, vocation, weakness, zest), симпатия (feeling, fellow feeling, leaning, sympathy), расположение (collocation, disposal, disposition, emplacement, favour, goodwill, lineup, order, ranking, regard), вкус (flavour, palate, relish, sapidity, sapor, savor, savour, smack, taste, tastefulness, tastiness). (various references)

Scottish

spéis (attachment, esteem, fondness, regard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

volja (humor, humour, mood, temper, volition, will), težnja (aspiration, pursuance, pursuit, tendency, urge), sklonost (affinity, bent, bias, calling, fancy, fondness, inclination, leaning, penchant, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency), simpatija (sympathy). (various references)

Spanish

afición (addiction, avocation, fancy, fondness, hobby, love, penchant, rave, relish, taste). (various references)

Swedish

tycke (contention, fancy, inclination, likeness, opinion, resemblance), böjelse (addiction, bent, fancy, inclination, leaning, propensity, tendency). (various references)

Thai

ความชอบ (fondness, love). (various references)

Turkish

zevk (bang, delectation, delight, enjoyment, fancy, good taste, gratification, gusto, indulgence, kick, like, luxury, meat, pleasure, relish, savor, savour, sweet, taste, treat), sevme (tooth), meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, concern, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought), hoşlanma (delectation, enjoyment), beğeni (acclaim, admiration, applause, credit, eclat, fancy, good taste, inclination, like, regard, taste). (various references)

Ukrainian

симпатія (amour, sympathy, value), любов (affection, amour, care, dearness, love, passion), прихильність (acceptance, adherence, affectation, affection, benevolence, bias, committal, devotion, endearment, favour, good-liking, goodwill, grace, kindness, sympathy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mến, sự ưa thích. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "liking": likings. (additional references)

Words ending with "liking": disliking, misliking. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Liking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ilkin, kiking, lekking, lican, licin, Licino, lieing, likeing, Liki, likyng, Liping, Liqing, Lixin, lokeing, lokking, Lokonga, Lukin, lukkin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gink, kiln, king, ling, link.

-3 letters: gin, ilk, ink, kin, lin, nil.

-4 letters: in, li.

+1 letter: bilking, inkling, killing, kilning, kilting, kitling, licking, likings, linking, milking, silking.

+2 letters: blinking, clicking, clinking, flicking, inklings, kibbling, killings, kiltings, kindling, kinglier, kinglike, kitlings, kittling, lickings, likening, nickling, pickling, plinking, ringlike, sickling, skilling, skirling, slicking, slinking, tickling, tinkling, winglike, winkling.

+3 letters: crinkling, disliking, giantlike, grimalkin, kiddingly, killingly, kindlings, kingliest, misliking, nickeling, prickling, relinking, sicklying, skiffling, skillings, stickling, tinklings, trickling, twinkling, unlinking, wrinkling.