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likeable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
likeable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ian is very likeable and has always had lots of friends.
▪ The only likeable character in the whole movie is Judge White.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Picture Publisher presents complex features in an accessible fashion; a likeable, powerful package.
▪ Charming, likeable and cultivated, they owned hundreds, thousands of acres, as well as the richest of libraries.
▪ Less likeable is a thoroughly daft idea by Rochdale Council to purchase compulsorily weavers' cottages in Clegg, Lancashire.
▪ Mark James can be as likeable as any of his colleagues.
▪ Since his youth he had been perceived as a likeable man.
▪ There was just something eminently likeable about him.
▪ Yet, there is still character - Cairns is likeable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Likeable

Likeable \Like"a*ble\ (l[imac]k"[.a]*b'l), a. See Likable.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
likeable

also likable, 1730, from like (v.) + -able. Related: Likeableness.

Wiktionary
likeable

a. (alternative spelling of likable English)

WordNet
likeable

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

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

Usage examples of "likeable".

Van der Valk got little impression beyond a fair, rather stupid, likeable face that had been very pretty and was even now only a little fleshy.

Joe Ragovsky, the violist, a likeable chap from the wheatfields of Manitoba, offered to pump and succeeded.

Andrew, a sensitive likeable man, was a representative for a firm of agricultural chemists and, like myself, spent most of his time driving around the Darrowby district.

His smile was no way likeable as he walked off, while folks swore no living soul could fiddle Byard Ray down without some special fiddle-secret.

Polly had reluctantly abandoned her plans of the visit, not wishing to cause disagreement amongst the party and privately reflecting that it was probably unkind of her to inflict Miss Dit ton's company on so likeable a character as Lady Belling ham.

It is never going to win any beauty contests, but it has some likeable features - an old-fashioned littlecinema called La Scala, a well-preserved market arcade, a large and adorably over-the-top nineteenth-century sandstone castle on a hill, some splendid river walks.

Casaverius had been a likeable man and Tubruk knew the gods cried out against those that hurt the good.

Younger children in particular, before the insidious and evil influence of society and their parents have properly got to them, are sexlessly open and hence perfectly likeable.