Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A feeling of attraction or love; fondness.
- noun Preference or taste.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pleasing; comely; good-looking.
- noun The state of being pleased with something; favor; approval; inclination; pleasure: as, one's liking for a friend; he took a liking to the place.
- noun A favorable or pleasing condition; attractive appearance; comeliness; in general, appearance.
- noun Synonyms Predilection, attachment, etc. See
love .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Looking; appearing. See
like , to look. - noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.
- noun The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to.
- noun Archaic Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.
- noun [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service
on liking ; to engage a servanton liking .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
like . - noun A
like ; apredilection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
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Examples
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Much more to my liking is the sly, sweet, smutty super-hero satire delivered by Adam Warren in his ongoing Empowered series, now in its fifth volume from Dark Horse.
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Much more to my liking is the sly, sweet, smutty super-hero satire delivered by Adam Warren in his ongoing Empowered series, now in its fifth volume from Dark Horse.
Upcoming 6/24/2009 2009
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Even less to my liking is the additive, "in your opinion," that some companions have been in the habit of appending to my absolute statements about the way the world works.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Even less to my liking is the additive, "in your opinion," that some companions have been in the habit of appending to my absolute statements about the way the world works.
Book Warning Labels 2009
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I think default settings for applications are no biggy for anyone on this site to handle, and changing it to your liking is actually much easier in Mac OS X than Windows 7.
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Much more to my liking is the sly, sweet, smutty super-hero satire delivered by Adam Warren in his ongoing Empowered series, now in its fifth volume from Dark Horse.
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The only thing I haven't found to my liking is a refrigerator ...
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It was only after I went to college, that I started to realize how much of the '80's music I really did like, and that I wasn't alone in liking those songs.
Apollo's Daughter :: June 27th, 2009 apollosdtr 2009
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It was only after I went to college, that I started to realize how much of the '80's music I really did like, and that I wasn't alone in liking those songs.
Apollo's Daughter :: Passing of an era... apollosdtr 2009
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It was only after I went to college, that I started to realize how much of the '80's music I really did like, and that I wasn't alone in liking those songs.
Apollo's Daughter :: Passing of an era... apollosdtr 2009
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