Synonyms of like

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verb

ˈlīk 

1

as in to want

to wish to have

I'd like another slice of pizza, but I've already eaten more than I should have

Synonyms & Similar Words

• want
• enjoy
• love
• feel like
• fancy
• relish
• welcome
• care (for)
• crave
• delight (in)
• desire
• adore
• wish (for)
• dig
• die (for)
• revel (in)
• covet
• groove (on)
• yearn (for)
• hanker (for or after)

2

as in to prefer

to show partiality toward

I like romantic comedies more than action movies

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prefer
• enjoy
• want
• favor
• choose
• pick
• care (for)
• lean (toward or towards)
• go in for
• appreciate
• fancy
• relish
• adore
• select
• be partial to
• cotton (to)
• desire
• crave
• dig
• take
• admire
• delight (in)
• wish (for)
• name
• tend (to)
• single (out)
• covet
• incline (toward)
• bias
• prejudice
• revel (in)
• groove (on)
• cherish
• treasure
• cull
• handpick
• value
• prize
• hanker (for or after)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dislike
• hate
• loathe
• detest
• refuse
• abhor
• reject
• decline
• turn down
• mislike
• disfavor
• discard
• abominate
• throw away
• throw out
• jettison

3

as in to enjoy

to take pleasure in

an adventuresome young woman who likes skydiving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enjoy
• love
• savor
• relish
• fancy
• adore
• rejoice (in)
• appreciate
• take to
• delight (in)
• get off (on)
• go for
• admire
• revel (in)
• prefer
• dig
• have a soft spot for
• revere
• groove (on)
• get a kick out of
• treasure
• venerate
• be partial to
• cherish
• value
• drink (in)
• worship
• cotton (to)
• eat (up)
• prize
• idolize
• devour
• feast (on)
• favor
• dote (on)
• indulge (in)
• wallow (in)
• luxuriate (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hate
• dislike
• loathe
• detest
• abhor
• despise
• condemn
• abominate
• scorn

4

as in to please

to see fit

feel free to order whatever you like from the menu

Synonyms & Similar Words

• want
• please
• wish
• choose
• will
• desire
• crave
• fancy
• long (for)
• covet
• pine (for)
• die (for)
• hunger (for)
• yearn (for)
• lust (for or after)
• pant (after)
• itch (for)
• sigh (for)
• thirst (for)
• decide
• ache (for)
• repine (for)
• resolve
• hanker (for)
• determine

like

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noun (1)

1

as in kind

a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common

you can never trust his like, because they'll always let you down

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kind
• type
• sort
• stripe
• genre
• variety
• breed
• nature
• description
• manner
• ilk
• species
• kidney
• order
• strain
• feather
• class
• persuasion
• category
• model
• sample
• group
• family
• specimen
• grouping
• lot
• set
• bracket
• bunch
• suite
• rank(s)
• grade
• division

2

as in equivalent

one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value

we'd never seen its like in any other shop in town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• equivalent
• counterpart
• fellow
• partner
• coordinate
• colleague
• peer
• parallel
• rival
• match
• equal
• compeer
• competitor
• associate
• half
• companion
• coequal
• analogue
• double
• mate
• twin
• copartner

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noun (2)

as in liking

positive regard for something

she thought her new boyfriend was unusually interested in her likes and dislikes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• liking
• love
• preference
• use
• taste
• appetite
• craving
• tendency
• fancy
• relish
• fondness
• love affair
• enthusiasm
• favor
• desire
• thirst
• shine
• partiality
• interest
• longing
• weakness
• inclination
• prejudice
• tooth
• passion
• bias
• gusto
• propensity
• bent
• hankering
• yen
• leaning
• palate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hatred
• dislike
• disgust
• distaste
• aversion
• loathing
• disfavor
• indifference
• apathy
• mislike
• disinclination
• unconcern

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adjective

as in similar

having qualities in common

you're not talking about like things when you compare football and golf

Synonyms & Similar Words

• similar
• comparable
• analogous
• alike
• such
• akin
• resembling
• matching
• parallel
• equivalent
• synonymous
• corresponding
• identical
• related
• resemblant
• correspondent
• suchlike
• cognate
• twin
• same
• connate
• ditto
• on the order of
• tantamount
• relatable
• virtual
• commensurate
• proportionate
• consistent
• allied
• kin
• redundant
• approaching
• kindred
• equal
• congenial
• close
• interchangeable
• conforming
• uniform
• congeneric
• duplicate
• conformable
• indistinguishable
• homogeneous
• entire
• me-too
• consonant
• homogenous
• fungible
• coincident
• approximating
• substitutable
• congenerous
• connatural
• coextensive
• unchanging
• unvarying
• selfsame
• unvaried

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unlike
• different
• dissimilar
• diverse
• various
• distinct
• disparate
• distinguishable
• variable
• varied
• unakin
• varying
• nonequivalent
• inaccurate
• noninterchangeable
• unrelated
• imprecise
• inexact
• unconnected

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adverb

1

as in pretty

to some degree or extent

the cat would curl up, tightly like, and just go to sleep

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretty
• quite
• something
• relatively
• rather
• enough
• fairly
• somewhat
• a little
• to a degree
• moderately
• a bit
• a mite
• of sorts
• after a sort
• sort of
• kindly
• a tad
• kind of
• a touch
• more or less
• slightly
• vaguely
• decently
• little
• acceptably
• tolerably
• passably
• nominally
• partly
• partially
• negligibly
• halfway
• half
• incompletely
• part
• partway

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• very
• especially
• particularly
• extremely
• highly
• heavily
• terribly
• awfully
• exceedingly
• exceptionally
• greatly
• deadly
• significantly
• substantially
• frightfully
• considerably
• mortally
• hugely
• beastly
• extensively
• surpassingly
• mightily

2

as in about

close to but not exactly

the distance is more like 500 miles

Synonyms & Similar Words

• about
• say
• approximately
• around
• roughly
• some
• much
• nearly
• more or less
• near
• generally
• somewhere about
• after a fashion
• plus or minus
• somewhere around
• practically
• loosely
• virtually
• nominally
• kind of
• well-nigh

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exactly
• precisely
• even
• just
• sharp
• due
• squarely
• smack-dab

like

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conjunction

as in as

the way it would be or one would do if

it looks like it's going to rain at any moment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• as
• as if
• as though

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of like

Verb

Wall Street mostly likes it—Morgan Stanley and Bank of America both called Nvidia’s chips unusually financeable. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

Bryant’s telling is hardly the triumphal story that the Brits would no doubt like to spin. — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Noun

The algorithm counted likes and comments and rewarded whoever generated the most of them the fastest. — Tammy Homegardner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

The post, which has racked up 149,000 likes on Instagram, has led to nine follow-ups. — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026

Adverb

Set upon a glossy black floor with a soundtrack playing tunes by the likes of Mazzy Star, Demeulemeester’s section is mesmerizing, and almost vortex-like, without trying at all. — Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2026

Chicks Our littlest Peeps like to make dioramas, too. — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026

Phrases Containing like

• as like as not
• feel like
• go like clockwork
• like a shot
• like as not
• like crazy
• like gangbusters
• like wildfire