Look Like

Definition: Look Like

Look Like

Verb

1. Bear a physical resemblance to; "She looks like her mother".

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

Dejection

Lower, look downcast, frown, pout; hang down the head; pull a long face, make a long face; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; grin a ghastly smile; look blue, look like a drowned man; lay to heart, take to heart.

Disrepute

Play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background; (modesty); be conscious of disgrace; (humility); look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in. one's ear, slink away.

Similarity

Verb: be similar; Adjective: look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate; favor, span.

Crosswords: Look Like

I think the important thing is not to make it look like we're panicking. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

It won't look like a suicide if you shoot me from over there. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Doesn't look like it. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Okay. You look like a BarrrRuuu-- BellllLuuuu-- Lllll-- Carolllll-- Taaaa-Sharrr--- SusaaannnEmmmmilllly--- Marr-- laaarr-- Maaxine--M-M-M--Maxine? (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Your little goat herder makes Darryl look like a welfare case! (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

You're trying to be cool, you look like a fool to me (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

From a distance you look like my friend, (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler)

Not because I look like Tyson Beckford (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

Girl, you look like my first wife (Thank U In Advance; performing artist: Boyz II Men)

Does he look like me? (Love Bites; performing artist: Def Leppard)

If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. (references; author: unknown)

Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas. (references; author: unknown)

Go the extra mile--It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. (references; author: unknown)

If Walking Is So Good For You, Then Why Does My Mailman Look Like Jabba The Hut? (references; author: unknown)

There are three billion women who don't look like super models and only eight who do. (references; author: unknown)

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

Books

• Digital Photography: 99 Easy Tips to Make You Look Like a Pro! (reference)

• Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother (reference)

• Further Adventures of a Blue-Eyed Ojibway: Funny, You Don't Look Like One Two (reference)

• Life Shouldn't Look Like This: Dealing With Disappointment in the Light of Faith (reference)

• When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons.For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on theseimages is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might wantto see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale.This image ofGula Mons( 8k) has beenaltered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale. Credit: NASA.

Sea cucumber is colored to look like its rocky habitat. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Your Child Doesn't Have To Look Like A Drug User To Be One. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 August 1943, upon completion of overhaul and battle damage repairs. Note: SK-1 search radar and gunfire directors mounted atop her foremast and bridge; large false windows painted on her pilothouse, part of a camouflage scheme intended to make her look like a destroyer; Sailors pushing a cart full of battle helmets in the lower left; railway boxcars on the pier alongside the ship; lighter YF-280 in the left distance and crane vessel YD-98 at right. Circles mark recent alterations. Credit: NAVY.

Newly-arrived WAVES recruits pose for a group portrait at the school, before the arrival of their uniforms, January 1943. Shirley Feldstein (Bell) is 3rd from right in the front row, with a white name tag visible on her coat. She comments, on the reverse of the original print: "We all look like penguins ready for a slide in the snow". Credit: NAVY.

She does look like a fashionable young lady, but somehow I miss my little Rose. Credit: Library of Congress.

God knows why they all show at once. I'm not old enough to look like a hag. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boo hoo! : I'll look like the king of pikers by the time he gets through!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hugo, you take this, you've made me look like a chatterbox!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stone along the highway, Route 165, near Voluntown, Connecticut painted to look like a dog. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She got that quiet look like when somebody died.

I never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection, or possibly give the least offence even to those who are most ready to take it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Some look like half-moons, others like fingerprints. (references)

In real life, rabid animals look like they have foam in their mouth because they have more saliva. (references)

It also can be used in some cases to rule out other disorders such as cardiac arrhythmia or narcolepsy that may look like epilepsy. (references)

Business

Rustic tiles and Saturnia stone look like marble but are only a fraction of the cost, and maintenance is easier. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

They approach persons who look like Haitians, including persons who have very dark complexions and fairly poor clothing. (references)

Economic History

Latvia

Latvians look like and consider themselves Nordics, evidenced through the strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Germanic and Scandinavian colonization and settlement. (references)

Estonia

Estonians look like and consider themselves Nordics, evidenced through the strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Germanic and Scandinavian colonization and settlement. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "look like": look like a drowned rat ♦ look like the wrath of god. Additional references.

Albanian

përngjaj (pattern, resemble), ngjaj (be like, look, participate, resemble, take after). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماثل (match, parallel, resemble). (various references)

Aymara

uñtasiña (to look like). (various references)

Bulgarian 

имам вид на (look). (various references)

Czech

vypadat jako, podobat se (become like, resemble). (various references)

French

ressembler. (various references)

German

aussehen (appearance, aspect, expression, figure, look, lookout, looks, sight, to look like, view). (various references)

Greek 

μοιάζω με. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"יות �"ומ�" ל- (favor one, resemble, take after). (various references)

Hungarian

vmilyennek tűnik (to look like sg), vmilyennek látszik (to look like sg), vmilyennek kinéz (to look like sg), olyan mint vmi (to look like sg), kinéz vmilyennek (to look like sg). (various references)

Italian

somigliare (be alike, be like, be like each other, resemble), assomigliare (be alike, be like, compare, Favor, favour, liken, resemble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

がぶりと噛み付く (clattering, crowd of people talking, griping, nagging, savor of, sinking one's teeth into, smack of, sound like, toad). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がましい (savor of, smack of, sound like). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooklay ikelay

Russian 

быть похожим на. (various references)

Samoan

e foliga ia (to look like). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ličiti na (take after). (various references)

Spanish

parecer que, parecer (appear, appear to be, feeling, hallucinate, judgement, judgment, look, mind, opinion, please, read, resemble, say, seem, sound, take off, think, view). (various references)

Swedish

likna (be like, be similar, compare, Favor, favour, liken, resemble), se ut som. (various references)

Turkish

benzemek (appear, approach, approximate, be similar, bear resemblance to, compare, correspond, dovetail, Favor, favour, have an air of, have resemblance to, look alike, match, mimic, promise, remind, remind of, resemble, resemble smb. in looks, seem, take after, take on, throw back). (various references)

Turkmen 

meсzemek (resemble). (various references)

Ukrainian

бути схожим (approach, be alike, be like, look alike, take after). (various references)

simila, similare, similari, similasti, similatus, similem, similes, simula, simulans, simulantes, simularent, simularetur, simulas, simulata, simulator, simulaverant. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: kookie.

-3 letters: looie.

-4 letters: kike, kill, kilo, koel, kolo, kook, like, look, oleo, olio.

-5 letters: elk, ell, ilk, ill, koi, lei, lek, lie, loo, oil, oke, ole.

+1 letter: lookalike.

+2 letters: lookalikes.