'Liking' definitions:
Definition of 'liking'
From: WordNet
noun
A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" [ant: dislike]
Definition of 'Liking'
From: GCIDE
- Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liked (l[imac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Liking.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[imac]cian, gel[imac]cian, fr. gel[imac]c. See Like, a.]
- 1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there. --R. of Gloucester. [1913 Webster]
- I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to take satisfaction in; to enjoy. [1913 Webster]
- He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking to loving. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Liking'
From: GCIDE
- Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a. Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? --Dan. i. 10. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Liking'
From: GCIDE
- Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
- 1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for. [1913 Webster]
- If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of men's liking. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix. 4. [1913 Webster]
- On liking, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting; also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance? --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'liking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a thing for,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- affection,
- affinity,
- agape,
- Amor,
- animus,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetite,
- appreciation,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- attachment,
- bent,
- bias,
- bodily love,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- cast,
- charity,
- choice,
- Christian love,
- command,
- conation,
- conatus,
- conduciveness,
- conjugal love,
- crush,
- decision,
- delight,
- desire,
- determination,
- devotion,
- diathesis,
- discretion,
- disposition,
- eagerness,
- Eros,
- eye,
- faithful love,
- fancy,
- feeling for,
- fervor,
- flame,
- fondness,
- free choice,
- free love,
- free will,
- free-lovism,
- gust,
- gusto,
- heart,
- hero worship,
- idolatry,
- idolism,
- idolization,
- inclination,
- infatuation,
- intention,
- lasciviousness,
- leaning,
- liability,
- libido,
- like,
- likes,
- love,
- lovemaking,
- lust,
- married love,
- mind,
- objective,
- partiality,
- passion,
- penchant,
- physical love,
- Platonic love,
- pleasure,
- popular regard,
- popularity,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- prejudice,
- probability,
- proclivity,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- readiness,
- regard,
- relish,
- resolution,
- sensitivity to,
- sentiment,
- sex,
- sexual desire,
- sexual love,
- shine,
- soft,
- soft spot,
- spiritual love,
- susceptibility,
- taste,
- tendency,
- tender feeling,
- tender passion,
- tropism,
- truelove,
- turn,
- twist,
- uxoriousness,
- velleity,
- volition,
- warp,
- weakness,
- will,
- will power,
- willingness,
- wish,
- worship,
- yearning
Words containing 'Liking'
- Had like,
- Like,
- Liked,
- Likely,
- Likeness,
- On liking,
- Such like,
- To like of,
- likely to,
- the like,
- the likes of,
- Janus like,
- Like blazes,
- Like figures,
- Like mad,
- act like,
- feel like,
- goddess like,
- like a Trojan,
- like a shot,
- like a trooper,
- like an expert,
- like clockwork,
- like crazy,
- like fun,
- like hell,
- like kings,
- like minded,
- like royalty,
- like sin,
- like the devil,
- like thunder,
- look like,
- sound like,
- very much like,
- Like-minded,
- Snail-like,
- Thrall-like,
- Well-liking,
- Wise-like,
- antler-like,
- baby-like,
- belt-like,
- candy-like,
- cell-like,
- chisel-like,
- city-like,
- comb-like,
- comet-like,
- custard-like,
- dagger-like,
- drill-like,
- drop like flies,
- drum-like,
- ear-like,
- fall like dominoes,
- fang-like,
- feel like a million,
- file-like,
- flipper-like,
- fork-like,
- gauze-like,
- glass-like,
- gum-like,
- lash-like,
- leaf-like,
- like blue murder,
- lung-like,
- lymphoblast-like,
- machine-like,
- maple-like,
- olive-like,
- pancake-like,
- petal-like,
- plush-like,
- rudder-like,
- saw-like,
- souffle-like,
- spade-like,
- to rise like a phoenix,
- trumpet-like,
- umbel-like,
- wafer-like,
- well-liked,
- wheel-like,
- yokel-like,
- bell-like call,
- feel like a million dollars,
- tea-like drink