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alike
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adv 1: equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms"
[syn: alike, likewise]
2: in a like manner; "they walk alike"
adj 1: having the same or similar characteristics; "all
politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike";
"friends are generally alike in background and taste"
[syn: alike(p), similar, like] [ant: dissimilar,
unalike]
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apelike
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adj 1: resembling apes [syn: anthropoid, anthropoidal,
apelike]
2: being or given to servile imitation [syn: apish, apelike]
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belike
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adv 1: with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is
probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are
headed for war" [syn: probably, likely, in all
likelihood, in all probability, belike]
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businesslike
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adj 1: exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that
would be useful in business
2: not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal [syn:
businesslike, earnest]
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childlike
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adj 1: befitting a young child; "childlike charm" [syn:
childlike, childly]
2: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike
trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed
wonder" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-
eyed, simple]
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dislike
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n 1: an inclination to withhold approval from some person or
group [syn: disfavor, disfavour, dislike,
disapproval]
2: a feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was
instinctive" [ant: liking]
v 1: have or feel a dislike or distaste for; "I really dislike
this salesman" [ant: like]
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doglike
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adj 1: resembling a dog; especially in devotion; "a doglike
affection"
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dreamlike
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adj 1: resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a
dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a
dream" [syn: dreamlike, surreal]
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fanlike
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adj 1: resembling a fan
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ghostlike
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adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly
face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room";
"spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
[syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly,
phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
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godlike
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adj 1: appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength
of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play
God for he has acquired certain godlike
powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn: divine, godlike]
2: being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing
the divine king upon any serious failure of
his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine
capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to
create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: divine, godlike]
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homelike
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adj 1: having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the
homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" [syn:
homelike, homely, homey, homy]
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hornlike
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adj 1: made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) [syn:
corneous, hornlike, horny]
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knifelike
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adj 1: cutting or able to cut as if with a knife
2: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine
distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and
politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning";
"as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating
insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute,
discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike,
penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]
3: painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind";
"keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains";
"piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain";
"lancinating pain" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike,
piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating]
4: having a sharp or distinct edge; "a narrow knifelike profile"
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ladylike
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adj 1: befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"
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lifelike
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adj 1: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial
poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a
lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn:
graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]
2: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural
reaction" [syn: lifelike, natural]
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liplike
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adj 1: having lips or parts that resemble lips [syn: labiate,
liplike]
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machinelike
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adj 1: resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an
automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn:
automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike,
robotic]
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manlike
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adj 1: possessing qualities befitting a man [syn: manly,
manful, manlike] [ant: unmanful, unmanlike,
unmanly]
2: characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports"
[syn: male, manful, manlike, manly, virile]
3: resembling human beings [syn: anthropoid, manlike]
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nutlike
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adj 1: having the flavor of nuts; "a nutty sherry" [syn:
nutty, nutlike]
2: resembling a nut in shape and size
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rocklike
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adj 1: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic,
granitelike, rocklike, stony]
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seamanlike
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adj 1: characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating
competent seamanship [syn: seamanlike, seamanly]
[ant: unseamanlike]
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snakelike
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adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky
ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky,
snakelike]
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sportsmanlike
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adj 1: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a
clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement";
"sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean, sporting,
sporty, sportsmanlike]
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statesmanlike
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adj 1: marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; "a
man of statesmanlike judgment"; "a statesmanlike solution
of the present perplexities"-V.L.Parrington [syn:
statesmanlike, statesmanly] [ant: unstatesmanlike]
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suchlike
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adj 1: of the same kind; "a locker that usually contained paper,
ink, and suchlike equipment"
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sylphlike
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adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom,
lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte,
sylphlike]
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threadlike
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adj 1: thin in diameter; resembling a thread [syn:
filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike,
thready]
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unlike
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adj 1: marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very
unlike"; "people are profoundly different" [syn:
unlike, dissimilar, different] [ant: like,
similar]
2: not equal in amount; "they distributed unlike (or unequal)
sums to the various charities" [ant: like, same]
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warlike
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adj 1: disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant
nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies" [syn:
militant, hawkish, warlike]
2: suggesting war or military life [syn: warlike, martial]
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wavelike
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adj 1: uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves [syn:
crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike]
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witchlike
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adj 1: being or having the character of witchcraft
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womanlike
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adj 1: resembling a woman; "a womanlike stone image"
n 1: the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of
an adult female [syn: womanliness, womanlike]
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workmanlike
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adj 1: worthy of a good workman; "a competent job"; "the book is
a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and
index"
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wormlike
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adj 1: totally submissive [syn: cringing, groveling,
grovelling, wormlike, wormy]
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deathlike
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adj 1: having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly
pallor" [syn: deathlike, deathly]
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grasslike
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adj 1: resembling grass
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lamblike
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adj 1: like a lamb in meekness and gentleness
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leaflike
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adj 1: resembling a leaf [syn: leaflike, leaf-like]
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starlike
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adj 1: resembling a star; "they saw a starlike object in the
sky"
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swordlike
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adj 1: shaped like a sword blade; "the iris has an ensiform
leaf" [syn: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike,
bladelike]
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toothlike
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adj 1: resembling a tooth
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wifelike
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adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: wifely,
wifelike, uxorial] [ant: husbandly]
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winglike
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adj 1: resembling a wing in shape or position
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unalike
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adj 1: not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
[syn: unalike, dissimilar] [ant: alike(p), like,
similar]
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hairlike
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adj 1: long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a
capillary tube" [syn: capillary, hairlike]
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heathlike
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adj 1: resembling heath
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scalelike
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adj 1: reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a
scale; "scalelike leaves"
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catlike
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flowerlike
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flutelike
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gemlike
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swanlike
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dovelike
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glasslike
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mislike
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mosslike
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plantlike
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stemlike
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antlike
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rootlike
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