LIKABLE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of likable in English

(Definition of likable from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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Next, there is the ability and ingenuity of her lively and most likable people.
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Furthermore, when confederates mimic the behavior of the participant, the participant later rates the confederate as more likable than confederates who do not mimic behavior.
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He gave the album a two-star honorable mention, indicating a likable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well enjoy.
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He later gave it a two-star honorable mention, indicating a likable effort that consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well enjoy.
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From the litter, puppies who were likable and looked suitable were chosen.
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His character in the 30-minute weekly was a likable private detective with a quick wit.
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Despite the guys sounding like nightmares on paper, they have endearing, vulnerable cores that make them likable, and occasionally, lovable....
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One review commented that it was a likable satire of the world of politics which was so amusing that nobody could take offense at it.
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Yaghi is very talkative and friendly to other people, which makes him likable to others.
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Still, he's a very likable young pilot with a bright future.
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But he is also smart, likable, resilient and engaging.
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There's nothing inherently bad about the music and the band actually comes off as way more likable than initial, superficial opinions may have suggested.
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He felt that the series was trying way too hard to push the content envelope and that the characters were not likable.
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They are also enormously "likable" and often delightfully humorous.
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He is constantly in enormous debt, but is likable enough to pull people into investing in his ventures.
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Translations of likable

in Chinese (Traditional)
(likeable的美式拼寫)…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(likeable的美式拼写)…
in Spanish
ortografía americana de "likeable":, simpático, agradable…
in Portuguese
ortografia americana de "likeable", amável…
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in French
in Norwegian
agréable…
lett å like, likandes, sympatisk…
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