"-like" meaning in English

See -like in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Etymology: From Middle English -like, -lik, from Middle English like, lik (“same, similar, alike”), from Old English ġelīc and Old Norse líkr (“same, similar, alike”). Reinforced by like (preposition). Doublet of -ly. Compare also Dutch -lijk (“-ly, -like”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*leyg-|id=like}}, {{inh|en|enm|-like}} Middle English -like, {{der|en|enm|like}} Middle English like, {{der|en|ang|ġelīc}} Old English ġelīc, {{der|en|non|líkr|t=same, similar, alike}} Old Norse líkr (“same, similar, alike”), {{doublet|en|-ly}} Doublet of -ly, {{cog|nl|-lijk||-ly, -like}} Dutch -lijk (“-ly, -like”) Head templates: {{head|en|suffix|cat2=adjective-forming suffixes|cat3=productive suffixes|head=|id=}} -like, {{en-suffix|cat2=adjective-forming suffixes|cat3=productive suffixes}} -like
  1. Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns). Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en--like-en-suffix-OxLrlDOM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Malayalam translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 61 39 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 40 22 20 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 51 26 12 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 60 21 10 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Malayalam translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 57 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 60 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 60 40
  2. (dialectal) Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly. Tags: dialectal, morpheme
    Sense id: en--like-en-suffix-IvHafryd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)): كَـ (ka-) (Arabic), -կերպ (-kerp) (Armenian), -նման (-nman) (Armenian), -般 (-bān) (Chinese Mandarin), 如- (rú-) (Chinese Mandarin), 類- (Chinese Mandarin), 类- (lèi-) (Chinese Mandarin), -achtig (Dutch), -eca (Esperanto), -moinen (Finnish), -llinen (Finnish), -n kaltainen (Finnish), -in [masculine] (French), -ine [feminine] (French), -ებრ (-ebr) (Georgian), -ებრი (-ebri) (Georgian), -ვით (-vit) (Georgian), -artig (German), -ähnlich (German), -szerű (Hungarian), -os (Hungarian), -as (Hungarian), -es (Hungarian), -ös (Hungarian), -s (Hungarian), -legur [masculine] (Icelandic), っぽい (ppoi) (Japanese), みたい (mitai) (Japanese), -oides (note: in some words derived from Greek) (Latin), പോലത്തെ (pōlatte) (Malayalam), ـدیس (-dis) (Persian), ـوش (-vaš) (Persian), -подо́бный (-podóbnyj) (alt: used with connecting "-о-") (Russian), algo (Spanish), cuasi- (Spanish), -lik (Swedish), -aktig (Swedish), -artad (Swedish), -ca (Turkish), -ça (Turkish), -ce (Turkish), -çe (Turkish), -si (Turkish), -sı (Turkish), -su (Turkish), -sü (Turkish), -imsi (Turkish), -ımsı (Turkish), -umsu (Turkish), -ümsü (Turkish)
Synonyms: quasi-, para-, -esque, -ish, -ly, -oid, -form, -iform, -some, -y, -ass (english: restricted to casual registers) Disambiguation of 'having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)': 51 49
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          "text": "1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under \"Dark\"\nDamage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind"
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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?",
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      "word": "quasi-"
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      "word": "para-"
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      "word": "-ish"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ka-",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "كَـ"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "-kerp",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-կերպ"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "-nman",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-նման"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "-bān",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-般"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rú-",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "如-"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "類-"
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    {
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lèi-",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "类-"
    },
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-achtig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-eca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-moinen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-llinen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-n kaltainen"
    },
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-in"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "-ebr",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ებრ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "-ebri",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ებრი"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "-vit",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ვით"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-artig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ähnlich"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-szerű"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-os"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-as"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-es"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ös"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "word": "-s"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "-legur"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ppoi",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "っぽい"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mitai",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "みたい"
    },
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "note": "in some words derived from Greek",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-oides"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "pōlatte",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "പോലത്തെ"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "-dis",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "ـدیس"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "-vaš",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "ـوش"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "alt": "used with connecting \"-о-\"",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-podóbnyj",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-подо́бный"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "algo"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "cuasi-"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-lik"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-aktig"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-artad"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ca"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ça"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ce"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-çe"
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-si"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-sı"
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    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-sü"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
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      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-imsi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ımsı"
    },
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      "_dis1": "51 49",
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      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-umsu"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ümsü"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-like"
}
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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
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    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Malayalam translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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        {
          "text": "Even at 13 years old, she still had a childlike voice.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under \"Dark\"\nDamage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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?",
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        "(dialectal) Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly."
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    {
      "word": "quasi-"
    },
    {
      "word": "para-"
    },
    {
      "word": "-esque"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ish"
    },
    {
      "word": "-ly"
    },
    {
      "word": "-oid"
    },
    {
      "word": "-form"
    },
    {
      "word": "-iform"
    },
    {
      "word": "-some"
    },
    {
      "word": "-y"
    },
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      "english": "restricted to casual registers",
      "word": "-ass"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ka-",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "كَـ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "-kerp",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-կերպ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "-nman",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-նման"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "-bān",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-般"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rú-",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "如-"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "類-"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lèi-",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "类-"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-achtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-eca"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-moinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-llinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-n kaltainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-in"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "-ine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "-ebr",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ებრ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "-ebri",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ებრი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "-vit",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ვით"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-artig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ähnlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-szerű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-os"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-as"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-es"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ös"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-s"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "-legur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ppoi",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "っぽい"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mitai",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "みたい"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "note": "in some words derived from Greek",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-oides"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "pōlatte",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "പോലത്തെ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "-dis",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "ـدیس"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "-vaš",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "ـوش"
    },
    {
      "alt": "used with connecting \"-о-\"",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "-podóbnyj",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-подо́бный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "algo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "cuasi-"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-lik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-aktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-artad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ca"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ça"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ce"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-çe"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-si"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-sı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-su"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-sü"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-imsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ımsı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-umsu"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns)",
      "word": "-ümsü"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-like"
}

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