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Likable   /lˈaɪkəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Likable  adj.  
1.
Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; easy to like; evoking sympathy; as, a likable person.
Synonyms: appealing, likable.
2.
Disposed to please.
Synonyms: amiable, agreeable, good-humored, good-humoured, likable.





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"Likable" Quotes from Famous Books



... when you get lonesome, come on back into the fold. I've an idea that Joy Cross is going to make a place for herself in the school whether you like it or not. Blue Bonnet seems to have got at her in some way lately, and she says she's really quite likable! She says Joy makes her think of the late chrysanthemums in her grandmother's garden. They never get ready to bloom until everything else is gone; but you appreciate them all the more after they've weathered ...
— Blue Bonnet in Boston - or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's • Caroline E. Jacobs
... from the Commonwealth of Israel. He remained with them three days looking over the country about Amalon, talking with its people and making himself at least not an object of suspicion and aversion, as the casual Gentile was apt to be. Prudence found herself usually at ease with him; he was so wholly likable and unassuming. Yet at times he seemed strangely mature and reserved to her, so that she was ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson
... heard of no small degree of immorality among the people, but our information is too limited to justify one in comparing them with others in this respect. There is much that is likable among them, but the general moral tone is undoubtedly low. Polyandry, which prevails in some districts in the Western Himalayan range, is I believe unknown, but polygamy is not uncommon among ...
— Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 • James Kennedy
... reason for it. Except on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally. Besides he would have hired a lawyer and fought any such move. He had plenty of money. And nobody wanted publicity. McAllen was a pretty likable old boy." ...
— Gone Fishing • James H. Schmitz
... was very kind and warm in his expressions of pleasure at seeing us; and, on our part, we were all very glad to meet him. He must be an exceedingly likable man. . . . . They are to leave Florence very soon, and are going to Normandy, I think he said, for ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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