likeable

Alternative spelling of likable.

Adjective

  1. Alternative spelling of likable.
    • All the better that she was no dandy; all the likeabler that she spoke little; all the safer that she ruled the father an’ was a mistress in the house. - 1901 August 16, Shan F[adh] Bullock, “Bulldog”, in Alderley &...
    • He was about the likeablest cuss I ever met. We got to be good friends. - 1946, Zane Grey, chapter 11, in Shadow on the Trail, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, →OCLC, page 139:
    • He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun. - 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe...

Origin

Etymology tree English like Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English likeable From like + -able.

Forms

more likeable likeabler most likeable likeablest

Derived

likeableness likeably