Word Meanings - LIKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. Chaucer. Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort Dan. i. 10.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIKING)

• Leaning
• Tendency
• inclination
• proclivity
• propensity
• partiality
• bias
• liking
• Mind
• Soul
• spirit
• intellect
• understanding
• opinion
• sentiment
• judgment
• belief
• choice
• desire
• will
• purpose
• impetus
• memory
• remembrance
• recollection
• Predilection
• Prepossession
• preference
• leaning
• fondness
• predisposition
• tendency
• prejudice

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIKING)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to LIKING)

• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.