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likeworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From like (verb) + -worthy. Compare Old English līcwyrþe (“fit to please; well-pleasing; acceptable; agreeable”, literally “like-worthy”).

Meanings

1. Worthy of being liked; likeable.
   • Quite a few literature studies demonstrate likeworthy results with instrumented fusions as with uninstrumented (Thomsen et al. 1997, Fritzell et al. 2002). 2005, Michel Guez, Acta orthopaedica: Supplementum:
   • None of your hatred should have prevented me, for I am a very likeworthy man. 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court:

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