likest

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A form of like — To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicindicativepresentsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple present indicative of like
adjective
  1. archaicsuperlativesuperlative form of like: most like

    Like neuer yet did liuing eie detect; / But likeſt it to an Hyena was, / That feeds on wemens flesh, as others feede on gras.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 500
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    Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,[…].

    1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 40

    Surely, estates be then best, when they are likest minds that be worst: I mean, neither hot, nor cold: neither distended with too much, nor narrowly pent […]

    1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Origin

From like + -est.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “likest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/likest.

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