likeable
/ˈlʌɪkəb(ə)l
/(also chiefly US likable)
adjective
(Especially of a person) pleasant, friendly, and easy to like: a very likeable young woman...
- Often times I have noted that it is very popular and likeable people that die young.
- A friendly and likeable fellow, Ritchie has all the people skills needed to keep the show on the road.
- His theology is fairly sound, and he is a very pleasant and likeable person.
Synonyms
pleasant, nice, friendly, agreeable, affable, amiable, genial, civil, personable, charming, popular, clubbable, good-natured, engaging, warm, pleasing, appealing, endearing, convivial, congenial, winning, delightful, enchanting, attractive, winsome, fetching, captivating, lovable, adorable, sweet;
Scottish couthy;
Italian & Spanish simpatico
informal chummy, pally, darling, lovely, adorbs
Derivatives
likeability
- Most voters have a complicated range of reasons why they vote the way they do, from tribal identity to personal likeability and reasoned discussion of the issues is way down the list.
- He was pretty lame early on when he tried to establish his personal likeability.
- But presidents-as all leaders-must be judged by history not on the basis of their personal likeability, but by the real-world effects of their policies.
likeableness
- He's got a terse dry wit which, erm, some might say skirts very closely to the fringes of arrogance - phew, I said it - but for me it only adds to his gruff likeableness.
- Polivka is able to sustain the likeableness of Josef in scenes that threaten, mock, and humiliate him.
- Moreover, their congregations seemed to desire likeableness in their pastors-not challenging and prophetic preaching, or any other gift or skill nurtured within seminary walls.
likeably
- The final piece starts with the clichéd scenario of a materially successful but spiritually unhappy male named Michael Wiley, played as likeably inept by Daniel McDonald.
- Luhning, in contrast, starts out as likably mild-mannered and awkward, so that the final frustrated explosion of his repressed feelings is unexpected and shocking.
- However, it falters due to its desire to shoe-horn a palpably insincere message about love into the likeably silly plot.
- cinematograph
- cinematographer
- cinematographic
- cinematographically
- cinematography
- cinephile
- cinephilia
- cineplex
- striker plate
- strike-slip fault
- strike someone off the roll
- strike someone out (or strike out)
- strike sparks off each other (or one another)
- strike up (or strike something up)
- strike while the iron is hot
- strike zone
- striking
- striking circle
- strikingly
- strikingness
- striking plate
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- mail order business
- mail order catalog
- mail order catalogue