Liking
['laɪkɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; 'I've always had a liking for reading'; 'she developed a liking for gin'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Like
(p. a.) Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.
(n.) The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.
(n.) The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.
(n.) Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fondness, partiality, desire, wish.[2]. Inclination, disposition, tendency, turn, PENCHANT, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, proneness, predisposition, appetency.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Love, approval, relish, infection, taste, inclination, partiality, fondness
ANT:Hatred, dislike, disrelish, aversion, repugnance, loathing, disinclination,abhorrence
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Examples
- And there is no doubt the liking is mutual, said Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The lady was wealthy and beautiful, and had a liking for the girl, and treated her with great kindness, and kept her always near her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In short, not altogether liking the words my dear, as they had been applied to me by her husband, she thought it monstrous vulgar! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Coleridge said, I attend Davy’s lectures to increase my stock of metaphors, and there were many others who went to hear the young chemist for other reasons than a liking for science. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They suit so well about the servants they can't help liking each other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We quarrelled finely, and Mrs. Clements, not liking to see it, I suppose, offered to take Anne away to live in London with her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If there was a sincere liking between George and the Major, it must be confessed that between the boy and his uncle no great love existed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. and Mrs. Badger were here yesterday, Richard, said I, and they seemed disposed to think that you had no great liking for the profession. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Could they be much together, I feel sure of their liking each other. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I acquire deliberately both knowledge and liking. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His father's evident liking for Miss Sharp had not escaped him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But really, when I came to think of it, I couldn't help liking that the fellow should have a bit of hare to say grace over. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Else why did I seek out so much for a pretty child, and a child quite to my liking? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was the danger-point of their intercourse that he could not doubt the spontaneity of her liking. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- For never have I known Sophronia (who is not apt to take sudden likings) so attracted and so captivated as she is by--shall I once more? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Both these having violated nature, their natural likings and antipathies are reversed; they grow altogether morbid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wanting to do good, why not do it for its own sake, and put my tastes and likings by? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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