Word Meanings - LIKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. Chaucer. Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort Dan. i. 10.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIKING)
- Leaning
- Tendency
- inclination
- proclivity
- propensity
- partiality
- bias
- liking
- Mind
- Soul
- spirit
- intellect
- understanding
- opinion
- sentiment
- judgment
- belief
- choice
- desire
- will
- purpose
- impetus
- memory
- remembrance
- recollection
- Predilection
- Prepossession
- preference
- leaning
- fondness
- predisposition
- tendency
- prejudice
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIKING)
Related words: (words related to LIKING)
- JUDGMENT
The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - OPINIONATOR
An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South. - REVOKER
One who revokes. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - LEANING
The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - CHOICELY
1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
See CHAUCER - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - SENTIMENTALLY
In a sentimental manner. - INTELLECTUALIST
1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. - INTELLECT
The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power - LEANLY
Meagerly; without fat or plumpness. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - LIKABLE
Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - PRIESTLIKE
Priestly. B. Jonson. - MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
Like a minion; daintily. Camden. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - WELL-LIKING
Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer . - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - CLEANSABLE
Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood. - CHURCHLIKE
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. - SOLDIERLIKE
Like a soldier; soldierly. - CLEAN-CUT
See CLEAR-CUT - BEASTLIKE
Like a beast. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.