likeworthy

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adjective

Worthy of being liked; likeable.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivelikeworthy (comparative likeworthier or more likeworthy, superlative likeworthiest or most likeworthy)

comparative likeworthier · comparative more likeworthy · superlative likeworthiest · superlative most likeworthy

  1. Worthy of being liked; likeable.

    None of your hatred should have prevented me, for I am a very likeworthy man.

    1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court
    1 more example

    Quite a few literature studies demonstrate likeworthy results with instrumented fusions as with uninstrumented (Thomsen et al. 1997, Fritzell et al. 2002).

    2005, Michel Guez, Acta orthopaedica: Supplementum

Origin

From like (verb) + -worthy. Compare Old English līcwyrþe (“fit to please; well-pleasing; acceptable; agreeable”, literally “like-worthy”).

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