liked
found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form
How often you will meet it
Rank 955 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 19,240 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form a well-liked teacher
liked in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She liked this small, neat Mary Winship.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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The girls ruled her, and she liked to be ruled by them.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 1
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He would have liked to give the boy a cuff on the ear.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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He would have liked to stand there with her all night in the blackness.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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He liked mathematics, and was wont to say jocosely that an abstract computation had a fine moral effect, favouring unselfishness.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1