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-like
suff.（后缀）
  1. Resembling or characteristic of:
    象…的（或地）：类似或有同样的特征：
    ladylike.
    象贵妇人似的

语源
  1. Middle English
    中古英语
  2. from like [similar] * see like 2
    源自 like [相似的] *参见 like2
-like

suffix forming adjectives

resembling or similar to
⇒ lifelike
⇒ springlike
having the characteristics of
⇒ childlike
⇒ ladylike

Origin

from like1 (prep)

-like

1
a suffixal use of like1. in the formation of adjectives (childlike; lifelike), sometimes hyphenated.

Related Words

  • birdlike
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-likea suffix of adjectives, use of like1, as in childlike, lifelike, amoeba-like, sometimes hyphenated.
-like
adjective combining form
: resembling or characteristic of
    bell-like
    ladylike
-like
/laɪk/  
combining form
(added to nouns) similar to; characteristic of
［附在名词后］表示“像…的”, “有…特征的”：

pealike

crust-like.

-likesuffix, forming adjs. and advs. In strictness, the words containing this suffix are compounds of like a. and adv., in the senses in which these words govern a dative or are followed by an adj. (see like a. 1 b, like adv. 1, 3). The compounds so formed not unfrequently resemble in sense the derivatives formed with -lik(e, ME. dial. form of -ly1, -ly2, but the two formations are entirely distinct: thus ME. gredilike adv. (= greedily) is not the same word as the mod. Sc. greedy-like.1. Appended to ns.a. Forming adjs. with the general sense ‘similar to —’, ‘characteristic of, befitting —’. Early examples are circlelyk (a 1420), chieftainlike (c 1470 Henry Wallace vi. 489), devil-like (c 1470), godlike (1513), bishoplike (1544), flesh-like (1552). The suffix may now be appended to almost all ns., including proper names; in formations intended as nonce-words, or not generally current, the hyphen is ordinarily used.Some particular writers have shown an extraordinary fondness for words of this formation; e.g. more than 60 occur in Bailey's Festus.1598Dallington Meth. Trav. S iij b, Making Hidalgo⁓like Rhodomontades.1603Dekker Grissil (Shaks. Soc.) 5 Then can you blame me to be hunter like, When I must get a wife?1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 188 The testimonies which themselues giue of their Sardanaple-like sobriety.1784R. Bage Barham Downs I. 100 An unaccountable unquality-like fit of the spleen.1823in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. 151 The professor thought this conduct extremely rude and ungoldsmithlike.1825Greenhouse Comp. II. 38 Their leaves and habits are so salad- and kitchen-garden-like, that we cannot recommend them.Ibid. II. 84 A low shrub, with heath- or fir-like leaves.1834Tait's Mag. I. 758/1 He gave an Egan-like description of a pugilistic encounter.1839Bailey Festus (1852) 286 And swore to make all souls Believe alike in clockworklike content.1849Noad Electricity 189 That plumbago-like substance found lining the interior of long-used coal-gas retorts.1857E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 263 June over! A thing I think of with Omar-like sorrow.1866W. Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. II. 578 If the noise..is that of a friction-murmur, soft and bellows-like.1901Academy 13 July 29/2 Strong, cudgel-like Anglo-Saxon words.b. Forming advs. with the sense ‘in or after the manner of —’, ‘so as to resemble —’. Early instances are fellowlike (c 1530), gentlemanlike (1542), phraselike (1549), bishoplike (1555). These advs., and the method of formation, are now perh. to be regarded as obsolete or at least archaistic, the apparent examples in recent use being explicable as quasi-advb. uses of the adj.; at least, the advs. or quasi-advs. are now employed only to characterize the subject of the sentence, not, as formerly, to indicate the manner of an action. In accordance with this change of signification, -like in the quasi-adverbial use now takes optionally a second principal stress, and is nearly always hyphened.1564–78W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 80 This is a comely parlour, very netly and trimely apparrelled, London like.1576Gascoigne Philomene (Arb.) 104 She..drest hir Bacchus like.1624D. Cawdrey Humilitie 39 How vainely and garishly (popingaye-like) are our men and women attired?1719De Foe Crusoe ii. xii. (1840) 255 How..coward-like they had behaved. [1768W. Donaldson Life Sir B. Sapskull I. 71 His father..(dotard like) seem'd fully satisfy'd.1834Tait's Mag. I. 768/2 Mr. Justice Rivers, Brutus-like, was constrained in justice to condemn.1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 97 Only continue patient while I throw Delver-like, spadeful after spadeful up.]2. Appended to adjs.a. Forming adjs. In Sc. the suffix is added freely to almost any descriptive adj., esp. those relating to mental qualities, conditions of temper, or the like; the general sense of the compounds is ‘having the appearance of being —’. In Eng. use the formation is not common, and the sense is usually ‘resembling, or characteristic of, one who is —’, as in genteel-like, human-like.c1470Henry Wallace vi. 694 Schir Rawff Gray saw at thai war Sotheron leik.Ibid. x. 210 ‘Allace’, he said, ‘the warld is contrar lik!’1587Fleming Cont. Holinshed III. 1355/1 Of countenance amiable, and complexion English like.1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 182 Twas not sillines he saw, that made that innocent-like fashion shew in me.1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 264 Wee found twelue Venerable like Turkes, ready to receiue vs.1639[see alive-like].1724Ramsay Vision iv, A man..Richt auld lyke, and bauld lyke.1789A. Wilson Let. in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 48 John's grim-like smile.1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. ii. 110 It was a low square-like room.1825Greenhouse Comp. II. 15 A low herbaceous-like shrub.1827J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 357, I think Peter's looking auld-like.1839Bailey Festus (1852) 389 Their sublime-like beauty.1866Aitken Sci. & Pract. Med. II. 719 A gluey-like material.1910A. H. Adams Galahad Jones 208 I'd be useful-like to keep a look out.1937M. Scott Barbara Prospers 214 Her bein' shaky-like.1953‘N. Blake’ Dreadful Hollow 38 We have a stronger parson now—more active-like.b. Forming advs. With the sense ‘like one who is —’. Obs. exc. in Sc., where the sense of the advs. is rather ‘so as to appear —’.Chiefly in contexts where the word might admit of being taken as adj.; cf. 1 b.c1470Henry Wallace v. 577 All his four men bar thaim quietlik.1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke 154 b, With suche pompe as this, triumphaunt lyke, and with such a trayne about him, did the Lord Iesus goe vnto Hierusalem.1594Warres Cyrus 1646 The Goddesse turnde her face, offending-like, frowning with angrie brows.1681Rycaut Critick 182 You, Phrygian, or inconsiderate like, replied Critilo, propound late Remedies.1682Songs & Ball. (Percy Soc.) 126 When thundering like we strike about.a1903Mod. Sc. Dinna rug at it sae rochlike [= roughly], or ye'll brak it.1895A. A. Grace Maoriland Stories 105, I suppose you won't care to stop the night with a chap, friendly-like.1907W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 50 Things seemed panning out so strange-like.1967Observer 10 Sept. 17/3, I went out with her, but all the coloured girls began to look at me weird-like: I had to pack it up quick.
-like /lʌɪk/ suffix.
ORIGIN: from like adjective etc.
Forming (a) adjectives from nouns & (chiefly Scot.) adjectives, with the sense ‘similar to, characteristic of, befitting, (one who is), resembling (that of)’, as doglike, ladylike, shell-like; gluey-like; (b) (now colloq.) adverbs from nouns & adjectives, with the senses ‘in the manner of’, ‘like one who is’, as coward-like; strangelike.
 NOTE  A hyphen is usual in less common words of more than one syllable and in all words ending in -l.
☞ like

-like

Suffix

  1. Having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).
    childlike
    snake-like
    2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
    What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

Etymology

From like (preposition). Cognate with -ly (adjective suffix). Compare also Dutch -lijk (“-ly, -like”).

Synonyms

Note: the suffixes below cannot necessarily replace "-like", but are also used to form words having the same sense as words formed using "-like".

  • -ish, -ly, -oid, -y

    • Derived terms

    English words suffixed with -like


    Usage notes

  • In British usage, a hyphen is almost always used, while in American usage, the suffix is sometimes joined to the noun without a hyphen.

    • 后缀：-like [形容词后缀]

    表示如...的、有...性质的

    dreamlike 如梦的

    steellike 钢铁般的

    childlike 孩子般天真的

    warlike 好战的，军事的

    godlike 上帝般的

    princelike 王子般的

    manlike 有男子气概的

    womanlike 女人似的

    fatherlike 父亲般的

    motherlike 母亲般的

    stralike 象星一样的

    springlike 如春的
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