Meanings
comparative likeworthier · comparative more likeworthy · superlative likeworthiest · superlative most likeworthy
- 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 court1 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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