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like liké lìkè lǐkē English Etymology en :inh enm:-like<id:adjectival><ety:inh<ang:-līċ>> 1 en ine-pro *leyg- like From en enm -like, enm -lik, from en enm like, enm lik same, similar, alike, from en ang ġelīc and en non líkr same, similar, alike. Reinforced by en like preposition. en -ly. Compare also nl -lijk -ly, -like. Pronunciation en /-laɪk/ GA Suffix resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns). en Even at 13 years old, she still had a childlike voice. en I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck. 1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark" Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind en May 20, 2012 Nathan Rabin TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) w:The Onion AV Club http://www.avclub.com/articles/marge-gets-a-job,73723/ What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods? Because the audience couldn’t possibly be expected to know who the Curies were, let alone that they were married and died of radiation poisoning, and devoting precious time to a scene of the scientists as Mothra-like destroyers does nothing but waste time and alienate an audience that just wants to hear characters spout their catchphrases. https://web.archive.org/web/20120816082952/http://www.avclub.com/articles/marge-gets-a-job,73723/ en dialectal Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly. en The Spanish speak machine-gun-like. en 2004 w:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Intelligent Systems Nintendo GameCube Boggly Woods Nintendo of America Hah! Big, bad Punio. Listen to yourself! Trying to sound all important-like! en gaming Used to form genres out of existing games through the process of analogy. en The Soulslike genre of games are very difficult and thought to play. Usage notes Words formed with like are often spelled with a hyphen. This is particularly the case with British spelling more so than American spelling, where it is somewhat more common to form the word without a hyphen. Though -like shares many meanings with -ly, -ly is most often paired with animate nouns while -like pairs with both animate and inanimate nouns. Thus one hears manly and friendly more often than manlike and friendlike. Exceptions such as childlike must therefore be learned by heart. Synonyms Note: the suffixes below cannot necessarily replace "-like", but are also used to form words having the same sense as words formed using "-like". en quasi-, en para-, en -esque, en -ish, en -ly, en -oid, en -form/en -iform, en -some, en -y; en -ass resembling en restricted to casual registers Derived terms en Translations having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns) Arabic: ar كَـ Armenian: hy կերպ -կերպ, hy նման -նման Azerbaijani: az -vari, az -varı, az sayağı, az -i, az təhəri Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 般 bān, cmn 如 Dutch: nl -achtig Esperanto: eo -eca Finnish: fi -moinen, fi -llinen, fi -n kaltainen French: fr -in m, fr -ine f Georgian: ka -ებრ, ka -ებრი, ka -ვით German: de -artig, de -ähnlich, de -haft Hungarian: hu -szerű, hu -os, hu -as, hu -es, hu -ös, hu -s Icelandic: is -legur m Japanese: ja 様 yō, ja の様に no yō ni, ja っぽい ppoi, ja みたい mitai Latin: la -oides in some words derived from Greek Malayalam: ml പോലത്തെ Persian: fa ـدیس -dis, fa ـوش -vaš Polish: pl -aty Russian: ru -подо́бный used with connecting "-о-" Spanish: es algo, es cuasi-, es propio de Swedish: sv -lik, sv -aktig, sv -artad Tagalog: tl mala- Turkish: tr -ca, tr -ça, tr -ce, tr -çe, tr -si, tr -sı, tr -su, tr -sü, tr -imsi, tr -ımsı, tr -umsu, tr -ümsü Further reading Anagrams en eikl Kiel Kile kile liek en productive suffixes Middle English Etymology 1 Suffix enm suffix 1 enm -ly adjectival suffix adjectival Etymology 2 Suffix enm suffix 1 enm -ly adverbial suffix adverbial