Alike
[ə'laɪk]
Definition
(adj.) having the same or similar characteristics; 'all politicians are alike'; 'they looked utterly alike'; 'friends are generally alike in background and taste' .
(adv.) in a like manner; 'they walk alike'.
(adv.) equally; 'parents and teachers alike demanded reforms'.
Editor: Noreen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
(adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.
Typist: Lottie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Similar, like, resembling, analogous, allied, equal, of a piece.
ad. Equally, in the same manner, form, or degree.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Resembling, similar, together, twin-fellow, analogous, identical, equal,equivalent, same, homogeneous, akin, equally
ANT:Unlike, heterogeneous, apart, dissimilar, variously, differently, unequally
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Definition
adj. like one another: having resemblance.—adv. in the same manner or form: equally: similarly.
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Examples
- Hard, loud, vain and vulgar, her mind and body alike seemed brazen and imperishable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- No, let it grow a little longer and I could cut mine and we'd be just alike only one of us blonde and one of us dark. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Some people have freckles, when others do not, because all skins are not alike, just the same as eyes are not all of one color. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the height of the season, Legree did not hesitate to press all his hands through, Sundays and week-days alike. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Observe their three heads: much alike at a first glance; at a second, different; at a third, contrasted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The two men were not at all alike, but they agreed none the worse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Differing though they may in tongue and skin, in thought and religion, in physical development and clime, the telegraph speaks to them all alike, and by all is understood. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You are quite enough alike. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Not precisely, but as near as may be; they are rather alike. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And they were not alike in their lot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Under such circumstances, they have a mechanical uniformity, assumed to be alike for all minds. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- There was the marble cross, fair and white, at the head of the tomb--the tomb that now rose over mother and daughter alike. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If you wish to consult me as to your interests, you will find me here at all times alike. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Mesozoic life, animal and vegetable alike, was adapted to warm conditions and capable of little resistance to cold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thou hast brought two copies, and one has just as many letters and words on a page as the other, and all the letters are exactly alike. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Now electric light is coming to be shed on rich and poor alike. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Samaritan and Jew, Moslem and Christian alike, revere it, and honor it with their visits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Isabella and Emma, I think, do write very much alike. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Both smooth heads were alike beaming, blundering, and bumpy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She did not want to hear any more; she was afraid alike of what she had heard, and of what she might hear. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Then trying to smile, she added, We used to agree that we were alike in speaking too strongly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All objects were alike to him, but he was always particularly ready for anything in the way of a testimonial to any one. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Dashwood could think of no other question, and Thomas and the tablecloth, now alike needless, were soon afterwards dismissed. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is the united testimony of manufacturers and farmers alike that the crop is increased from one-eighth to one-fourth, especially in the winter wheat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But the god of the priests remained as the real overlord of the land and of priest and king alike. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gentlemen and ladies alike had quitted their beds; and Oh! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Share and share alike? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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