Definition for Liking:

• The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

Synonyms for Liking:

• adj.

  •loving (adjective)
  • enamored,
  • reverential,
  • bound up,
  • Warm-hearted,
  • expressive.
  •minded (adjective)
  • in tending,
  • more contemplating,
  • more intending,
  • most intending,
  • aiming at,
  • more resolved,
  • more purposing,
  • most planning,
  • most purposing,
  • dis posed,
  • most contemplating,
  • re-solved,
  • most resolved,
  • in-tending,
  • more planning,
  • dis-posed.

• n.

  •
  • bond.
  •
  • connect,
  • loyalty.
  •
  • like.
  •admiration (noun)
  • de-light,
  • re cognition,
  • marvelings,
  • re-cognitions,
  • re cognitions,
  • re-cognition,
  • prizings,
  • valuings,
  • de-lights,
  • de lights,
  • de light.
  •affection (noun)
  • feeling,
  • respect,
  • sentiment,
  • warmth,
  • friendship.
  •appetite (noun)
  • zeal,
  • big eyes,
  • gluttony,
  • Gluttonies.
  •appreciation (noun)
  • re spect,
  • responsivenessses,
  • re-spect,
  • under-standing,
  • under standing,
  • under standings,
  • re-spects,
  • under-standings,
  • re spects,
  • high regards,
  • aesthetic senses.
  •approval (noun)
  • pat on head,
  • pumping up,
  • PRS,
  • pat on back,
  • pat on the head,
  • pat on the back.
  •attachment (noun)
  • possessivenesses.
  •desire (noun)
  • lustfulness,
  • salacity,
  • yearning,
  • pruriency,
  • libidinousness,
  • salacities,
  • prurience,
  • doting.
  •fancy (noun)
  • fool paradise,
  • weakness fors,
  • cup tea,
  • fools paradise,
  • velleities,
  • drutherses.
  •feeling (noun)
  • liking.
  •fondness, taste (noun)
  • bias,
  • attraction,
  • appetite,
  • soft spot,
  • sympathy,
  • stomach,
  • tooth,
  • proneness,
  • propensity,
  • bent,
  • devotion,
  • tendency,
  • preference,
  • passion,
  • palate.
  •inclination (noun)
  • fancied,
  • dis positions,
  • dis-position,
  • dis-positions,
  • dis position.
  •leaning (noun)
  • inclinings.
  •love (noun)
  • crush,
  • kinship,
  • sentimentality,
  • tenderness,
  • communion,
  • adoration,
  • infatuation,
  • friendliness,
  • faithfulness,
  • worship,
  • amorousness,
  • fondness,
  • endearment,
  • oneness,
  • intimacy,
  • romance,
  • idolization.
  •mind (noun)
  • de-termination,
  • de termination,
  • out look,
  • de terminations,
  • out-looks,
  • out looks,
  • way thinking,
  • out-look,
  • de-terminations,
  • point view.
  •predisposition (noun)
  • pre dispositions,
  • pre-dispositions,
  • pre disposition,
  • pre-disposition.
  •regard (noun)
  • cherishings,
  • re gards,
  • re-gard,
  • re-gards,
  • re gard.
  •relish (noun)
  • enjoyings,
  • sapidities.
  •weakness (noun)
  • invalidity,
  • faintness,
  • vitiation,
  • inconstancy,
  • chink in armor,
  • weak point,
  • sore point,
  • inconstancies,
  • powerlessness,
  • invalidities.
  •weak point (noun)
  • weak-point.
  •will (noun)
  • de sign,
  • self discipline,
  • de-crees,
  • de cree,
  • selfdiscipline,
  • de signs,
  • heart desires,
  • hearts desires,
  • heart desire,
  • re solutions,
  • self-disciplines,
  • re solves,
  • self control,
  • self restraint,
  • re-solutions,
  • willfulnesses,
  • de-sign,
  • re-solution,
  • de-signs,
  • re-solve,
  • re-solves,
  • self disciplines,
  • de crees,
  • de-cree,
  • selfrestraint,
  • pinings,
  • re solve,
  • heart's desires,
  • selfdisciplines.
  •wish (noun)
  • in vocation,
  • in-vocations,
  • re quests,
  • re-quests,
  • in vocations.

• v.

  •choosing (verb)
  • favoring,
  • picking,
  • Electing,
  • deciding,
  • Choosing,
  • wishing,
  • judging,
  • Espousing,
  • Adopting,
  • Fancying,
  • Selecting,
  • determining.
  •liking (verb)
  • Appreciating,
  • Esteeming,
  • admiring,
  • Preferring,
  • Enjoying,
  • relishing.
  •loving (verb)
  • caring,
  • Desiring,
  • Idolizing,
  • adoring,
  • worshiping,
  • cherishing,
  • Infatuating.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • affinity.

Paraphrases for Liking:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    feeling.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fondness.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    appreciation, pleasure, inclination, tasting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Appreciating, loving, Loves, Enjoying, Linking, Associating, Valuing, appraising, find, talking, matching, connecting, Gauging, judging, Assessing.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    likes, taste, sympathy, satisfaction, affection, flavour, preference, delight, gusto, friendliness, flavor.

Antonyms for Liking:

• n.

  • feeling
    dislike.
  • fondness, taste
    disgust, impartiality, neglect, repulsion, aversion, animosity, hate, enmity, disinterest, revulsion, antipathy, distaste, disinclination, indifference, hatred, justice, fairness.
  • Other antonyms:
    detestation, Disrelish, apathy, unconcern.

Liking Sentence Examples:

• If you would, if you only would, why, at last, you couldn't help liking her!

• " You are not liking me this morning," he observed.

Homophones for Liking:

• laxness, laughing gas, Leakiness, losings, logomach, licensee, lissomeness, loganiaceae, lessing, leguminous, loosening, lake seneca, leishmaniosis, lysenko, licence, lagging, loginess, licencee, license, legging, likeness, lushness, looking, lusciousness, Lake Onega, lacking, lousiness, Logomachy, ligneous, lacewing, lake nyasa, lozenge, lychnis, locking, loquaciousness, luging, leguminious, likening, lysogenic, lysogenize, looseness, licking, leucogenes, laziness, laconic, leishmaniasis, lessening, like kings, leguminosae, lawlessness, laughing jackass, lichenes, leaching, logginess, lashing, Luckiness, lashings, logging, laughing, lacing, lignosae, loch ness, lysimachia, lysimachus.

Hypernym for Liking:

• n.

  • feeling
    enchantment, mysophilia, predilection, preference, captivation, admiration, friendliness, fascination, esteem, taste, approval, fancy, enthrallment, partiality, inclination, penchant, fondness.

Hyponym for Liking:

• n.

  • feeling
    feeling.