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Definition of Look like
1. Verb. Bear a physical resemblance to. "She looks like her mother"
Definition of Look like
1. Verb. (idiomatic impersonal) To seem; appear. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To be similar in appearance to; resemble. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Look Like
Literary usage of Look like
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... as fishermen they look like fishermen on the stage. The Publicans are all like
Matthew and Zaccheus, full of devout impulse. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... not look like death ; and they had laid him out with hanches of his favourite
white roses on his breast' " Those who knew and loved him best, then, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"look like Let-me-be. — LEAN'S "COLLECTANEA." Gave her a look like red ...
look like the far end o' a French fiddle. — ALEXANDER HISLOP'S "PROVERBS OF ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Do I look like a greenhorn f Credulity and wonderment are moet pronounced in the
uyc. Green Man and Stilt This public- house sign refers to the distillation ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"crown of perpendicular rocks, whose moss-like vegetation makes them look like
malachite. Below this I beheld what seemed to be an Oriental city, ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... whose moss-like vegetation makes them look like malachite. Below this I beheld
what seemed to be an Oriental city, since almost all the buildings had ..."
7. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"I could offer myself for a courier, if I didn't look like a broken-down mountebank.
... But you have never seen your father look like this before ..."
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