likable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of likable
Explanation
A likable person is agreeable and friendly. It's very easy to be fond of someone who's likable. Every student wants to take a class with the most likable teacher in your school, and your likable acquaintances find it easy to make friends. In books and movies, the characters who are the most sympathetic (and who we tend to root for) are the likable ones. You can spell this adjective with or without an e: likable and likeable are both correct.
Example Sentences
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These Yankees—led by mild-mannered slugger Aaron Judge, who was injured these playoffs—are inoffensive, even likable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Compared with the control, they described the Hinoki aroma as more relaxing, comfortable, likable, elegant, nostalgic, and woody.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Mr. Boorman comes across as donnish, astute and likable, but also arrogant and dismissive of legitimate concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“I was trying to be the devil onstage and somehow ended up as likable anyway,” he says of his storied career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
They worked hard and tried to be cooperative and likable.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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