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What is the adjective for liken?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs like and likeness which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

likely
  1. probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring
  2. (as predicate, followed by to and infinitive) Reasonably to be expected; apparently destined, probable
  3. appropriate, suitable; believable; having a good potential
  4. plausible; within the realm of credibility
  5. promising; apt to achieve success or yield a desired outcome
  6. attractive; pleasant
  7. (obsolete) Similar; like; alike.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Given his penchant for bombastry, it is likely that word salad will be proffered in the guise of an answer.”
      “This unfortunate incident may sadly be used as a likely excuse by unsavory types to push their agendas.”
      “Theory development is, in any case, not a likely goal for a student paper, but you're welcome to try.”
likable
  1. Capable of being liked.
  2. (of a person) Having qualities tending to result in being liked; friendly, personable.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “He discovers that she is a likable old lady and becomes involved in a fight to stop a greedy developer from taking over the unspoiled mountain she owns.”
      “The secret of a story, to me, is a likable character going through almost overwhelming odds to win a worthwhile goal.”
      “The rest of the album, while maybe not as instantly likable as the lead-off single, keeps things in a suitably summertime laidback groove.”
like
likesome
  1. Marked by liking or likability; agreeable; pleasant; pleasing to the mind or senses
alike
likeful
likeworthy
  1. Worthy of being liked; likeable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “None of your hatred should have prevented me, for I am a very likeworthy man.”
liker
  1. (archaic) comparative form of like: more like
likeable
  1. Alternative spelling of likable
  2. Examples:
    1. “Interesting, cos they are not portrayed as a tight, likeable team, but a nest of corruption and depraved power-to-commerce cynicism.”
      “He is a likeable kitchen worker, who is always ready for a hand of cards or an illicit cake.”
      “Fitzgerald is one of hurling's most likeable characters and the book is an entertaining read.”
likish
  1. (dialectal) alike, similar
likelier
  1. comparative form of likely: more likely
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In undertaking crime to support their drug habits, cocaine and heroin abusers become likelier than usual to be arrested.”
      “The bigger the gap between rings, the better the growth, and the likelier that the weather that year was favourable.”
      “He said that it appeared likelier that the two sides would reach a compromise on the unresolved matters.”
likeliest
  1. superlative form of likely: most likely
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Because of parliamentary procedures, the likeliest scenario is a no-confidence vote in early December, making for an election in mid-January.”
      “The bookmakers have already placed him among the likeliest candidates to get the chop.”
      “The problem with going back to war, as even the most irredentist republicans admit, is that defeat is the likeliest result.”
likest
  1. (archaic) superlative form of like: most like
liked
liking
likenessed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of likeness
likenessing
  1. present participle of likeness
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