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likeable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English like Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English likeable From like + -able.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, often) Alternative spelling of likable.
   alt of likable
   • He was about the likeablest cuss I ever met. We got to be good friends. 1946, Zane Grey, chapter 11, in Shadow on the Trail, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, →OCLC, page 139:
   • He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun. 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
   • My associate, Jack Cloherty, spent a month establishing the links between Ashland the senator, an investigation which took Cloherty from Capitol Hill to Kentucky. The likeabler Cook, of course, had an explanation for everything. He acknowledged that he has accepted speech material from Ashland, but denied that it came in the form of ready-made speeches. 1974 October 3, Jack Anderson, “Washington merry-go-round: The senator from Ashland Oil”, in Hattiesburg American, volume LXXXIX, number 275, Hattiesburg, Miss., →OCLC, page 8, column 4:
   • All the better that she was no dandy; all the likeabler that she spoke little; all the safer that she ruled the father an’ was a mistress in the house. 1901 August 16, Shan F[adh] Bullock, “Bulldog”, in Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser, and Guardian, and East and Mid Cheshire Gazette, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

Forms

Deriveds

likeably · likeableness · unlikeable