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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
likable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
▪ But these likable characters are too moderately sketched to have any compelling dimension.
▪ He was a nice guy, a likable guy.
▪ His Toshi is a heroic character whose naivete and haunted past are shed in this exceedingly likable coming-of-age story.
▪ Larry Flynt presents the infamous pornographer as a likable slob who faced down the big guys and won.
▪ Now she found herself falling in love with her handsome, likable teacher.
▪ One of the reasons Beavis and Butt-head are likable, after all, is their imperviousness to the outside world.
▪ The professor was likable, it was the sixties, not having your creative juices flowing was understandable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Likable

Likable \Lik"a*ble\ (l[imac]k"[.a]*b'l), a. Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; easy to like; evoking sympathy; as, a likable person.
--Thackeray.

Syn: appealing, likable.

2. disposed to please. [WordNet sense 3]

Syn: amiable, agreeable, good-humored, good-humoured, likable.

Wiktionary
likable

a. 1 Capable of being liked. 2 (context of a person English) Having qualities tending to result in being liked; friendly, personable. alt. 1 Capable of being liked. 2 (context of a person English) Having qualities tending to result in being liked; friendly, personable.

WordNet
likable
  1. adj. (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" [syn: sympathetic, appealing, likeable] [ant: unsympathetic]

  2. easy to like; agreeable; "an attractive and likable young man" [syn: likeable]

Wikipedia
Likable (song)

"Likable" is Toshinori Yonekura's 29th single. Released as a limited print CD single coupled with a DVD, it is Yonekura's final single released under Warner Music Group. It is the lead single to his album, Samurai Quality (2007).

Usage examples of "likable".

He was a handsome and sturdy and likable boy, and I would have made sure that we both reveled in the experience of his first time ever.

Her daughter, Amalaberga, was fairly handsome, of a meek and retiring nature, likable enough.

It was weathered to a likable shade of bone gray, and the tin roof was numerous shades of rust.

And not that I knew a thing about the simplest skills in stroking a likable man to his ease.

I felt for Larkin was just the excitement of meeting a likable face and limbs on the edge of vanishing.

So late that afternoon we checked into the old Washington Duke Hotel, a likable place that was long since demolished.

And Pike had to admit that there was a very likable side to the kid, Rita had been right about that.

The kid was going to be a formidable opponent eventually, and a likable one which was even worse.

Medium height, slightly pudgy, monied, neither particularly bright nor sensitive, but a generous, likable fellow.

As Villiers had been able to perceive, Sergei Gilfillian was a likable young man with no harm in him.

A very likable guy with a good grin, a man of warmth, of funny stories, a newly wedded man in love with his wife.

Since you say he is likable and plausible, I think he will give you a totally fabricated account of what actually happened.

And you ought to know that these are very decent and likable animals, these lizards.

People who without any self-conscious posturing, any training in those Be Likable and Make Friends courses, are immediately aware of you, and curious about you, and genuinely anxious to learn your opinions have this special quality of being able to somehow dominate a room, a dinner table, or a backyard.

And lastly, having interviewed Richard Crawford and found him uncompromising, uncomplicated and personally likable, Catherine de Medicis had been content to dismiss him to Amboise with his Queen and a discreet observer to hand.