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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



... 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
... likable when you first meet him than George used to be; a handsome man who knows how to say the right thing. Makes friends readily, but somehow he never keeps the best of them. He's one of the people who seem able to get whatever they want without ...
— The Long Portage • Harold Bindloss
... We met up with a nice American chap on our travels. He was so likable that father, who was pretty homesick by that time and would have loved anything American, fell in love with him. I can't quite understand why I didn't lose my head too. I came mighty near it once or twice. But the minute I'd think of that boy here in Green ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... friendships had sprung up between them and certain of their hapless foes, whom they spoke of as "a sort of pets." One of these was very useful in making the mutinous take their medicine; another was liked apparently because he was so likable. At a certain cot the chief surgeon stopped and said, "We did not expect this boy to live through the night." He took the boy's wrist between his thumb and finger, and asked tenderly as he leaned over him, "Poco mejor?" The boy could ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... snow was falling in powdery flakes, when a sportsman alighted at the Hotel des Postes, and at the first glance I knew him for a countryman. He was a fine, frank, free-hearted young fellow, one of the most easily likable of youngsters, and we were on friendly terms together before the first evening was over. He knew a number of people in the neighbourhood, had received a dozen invitations to shoot, or thereabouts, and meant to put up ...
— Schwartz: A History - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray


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