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-like

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See also:like,liké,lìkè,andlǐkē

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle English-like,-lik, fromMiddle Englishlike,lik(“same, similar, alike”), fromOld Englishġelīc andOld Norselíkr(“same, similar, alike”). Reinforced bylike(preposition).Doublet of-ly. Compare alsoDutch-lijk(“-ly, -like”).

Suffix

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-like (adjective-forming suffix,comparativemore-like,superlativemost-like)

Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).
Even at 13 years old, she still had achildlike voice.
I saw thesnake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.
- 1996, Kevin Siembieda,Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark"
  Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind
- 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, inThe Onion AV Club‎^[1], archived fromthe original on16 August 2012:
  What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?[…] Because the audience couldn’t possibly be expected to know who the Curies were, let alone that they were married and died of radiation poisoning, and devoting precious time to a scene of the scientists as Mothra-like destroyers does nothing but waste time and alienate an audience that just wants to hear characters spout their catchphrases.
(dialectal)Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of-ly.
- 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Boggly Woods:
  Hah! Big, bad Punio. Listen to yourself! Trying to sound all important-like!

Usage notes

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Words formed withlike are often spelled with a hyphen. This is particularly the case with British spelling more so than American spelling, where it is somewhat more common to form the word without a hyphen.

Though-like shares many meanings with-ly,-ly is most often paired with animate nouns while-like pairs with both animate and inanimate nouns. Thus one hearsmanly andfriendly more often than manlike and friendlike. Exceptions such aschildlike must therefore be learned by heart.