LIKEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-like

1. Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).

   a childlike voice

   snake-like coils of rope

   • 1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark"

     Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind

   • 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?

2. (dialectal) Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly.

使用する際の注意点

• Words formed with like are often spelled with a hyphen. This is particularly the case with British spelling more so than American spelling, where it is somewhat more common to form the word without a hyphen.

同意語

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

• quasi-, para-, -esque, -ish, -ly, -oid, -form/-iform, -some, -y; -ass (restricted to casual registers)

派生語

Further reading

• -like at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “-like”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “-like” (US) / “-like” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “-like” in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• -like in Britannica Dictionary

アナグラム

• Kiel, Kile, kile, liek

発音

• enPR: līk, IPA^(key): /laɪ̯k/
• (MLE, Jamaica) IPA^(key): /læ̙ːk/, /lɑːk/
• (Dublin English) IPA^(key): /lɔɪ̯k/
• 韻: -aɪk

語源 1

Verb from Middle English liken, from 古期英語 līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), German Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic líka (“to like”).

Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).

動詞

like (三人称単数 現在形 likes, 現在分詞 liking, 過去形および過去分詞形 liked)

1. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.

   Antonyms: dislike, hate, mislike

   I like hamburgers.

   I like skiing in winter.

   I like the Seattle Mariners this season.

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242, book I, page 21:

     He may either go or stay, as he best likes.

   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 10:

     “I can tell you more than that, if you like,” said the Gryphon. “Do you know why it’s called a whiting?”

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. (transitive, archaic) To please.
   • 16th century, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia‎^[1]:

     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-favoured creature.

   • 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2:

     His countenance likes me not.

3. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Systems of the World, (Dialogue Two):

     And therefore it is the best way, if you like of it, to examine these taken from experiments touching the Earth, and then proceed to those of the other kind.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 2:

     He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

4. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.

   I like to go to the dentist every six months.

   She likes to keep herself physically fit.

   we like to keep one around the office just in case.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)‎^[2]:

     People in Washington like to work out!

5. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     You like well, and bear your years very well.

6. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.

   He liked to have been too late.

   • 1760, Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Oxford‎^[3], to George Montagu:

     He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.

7. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.

   Synonyms: (英国用法) fancy, enjoy, love

   Antonyms: dislike, hate, mislike

   I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.

   • 2016 December 19, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 1, Enju Ending:

     ― Enju: “Apparently when you like someone, you start talking like them.”

8. (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
   • 1590s, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 4, Scene 6:

     And like me to the peasant boys of France.

9. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

   Antonyms: unlike, dislike

   I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.

   I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.

10. (with 'would' かつ in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.

    Would you like a cigarette?

    We could go to the museum if you like.

    I don't like to disturb him when he's working.

11. (computing, chiefly in the negative) To accept as an input.

    We were frustrated that our seeming innocent choice for a team name was rejected by the censor. Apparently somewhere in the name is a word that the censor doesn’t like.

使用する際の注意点

• In its senses of “enjoy” and “maintain as a regular habit”, like is a catenative verb; in the former, it usually takes a gerund (-ing form), while in the latter, it takes a to-infinitive. See also Appendix:English catenative verbs.
• Like is only used to mean “want” in certain expressions, such as “if you like” and “I would like”. The conditional form, would like, is used quite freely as a polite synonym for want.

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• like like
• would like

派生した語

• Jersey Dutch: lāike

名詞

like (複数形 likes)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).

   Synonyms: favorite, preference

   Antonyms: dislike, pet hate, pet peeve

   Tell me your likes and dislikes.

2. (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
   • 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

     Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

   • 2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia:

     Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes

   • 2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times‎^[4]:

     Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.

参照

• like on Wikipedia.

語源 2

Adjective from Middle English like, lyke, from 古期英語 ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”)

Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from 古期英語 ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”).

Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like.

Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb).

形容詞

like (comparative more like, superlative most like)

1. Similar.

   My partner and I have like minds.

   The two cats were as like as though they had come from the same litter.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

     It will seem strange that in all this time the Presbytery was idle, and no effort was made to rid the place of so fell an influence. But there was a reason, and the reason, as in most like cases, was a lassie.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     […] and this is not a sky, it is a Soul and living Face! Nothing liker the Temple of the Highest, bright with some real effulgence of the Highest, is seen in this world.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab, through which her life had ebbed away.

2. (Scotland, Southern US) Likely; probable.
   • 1668, Robert South, The Messiah's Sufferings for the Sins of the People (sermon, March 20, 1668)

     But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.

   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

     She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils.

3. (Scotland, Southern US, otherwise archaic, usually with to) inclined (to), prone (to).

   He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.

   • 1920 [1843], Dickens, Charles, “Stave three: The second of the three spirits”, in A Christmas Carol, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, page 96:

     "If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

     Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

派生語

関連する語

• as like as not

副詞

like (comparative more like, superlative most like)

1. (obsolete, colloquial) Likely.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:

     DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit.
     CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough.

     Indeed, quite likely.

2. (archaic or rare) In a like or similar manner.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 103:13:

     Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

名詞

like (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 likes)

2. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Such things do happen and centre round the wicked medium. You can get down into a region which is akin to the popular idea of witchcraft, it is dishonest to deny it." "Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey[.]

   • 1935, Winston Churchill on T.E. Lawrence

     We shall never see his like again.

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 93:

     In fact it would be fair to say that he had reached a level of annoyance the like of which had never been seen in the Universe.

   There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.

   It was something the likes of which I had never seen before.

3. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.

   to play the like

同意語

• ilk

反意語

• antithesis, opposite

派生語

• like-for-like

接続詞

like

1. (colloquial) As, the way.
   • 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes

     Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

   • 1978, "Do Unto Others" by Bob Dylan

     But if you do right to me, baby

     I’ll do right to you, too

     Ya got to do unto others

     Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:

     Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.

2. As if; as though.

   It looks like you've finished the project.

   It seemed like you didn't care.

使用する際の注意点

• The American Heritage Dictionary opines that using like as a conjunction, instead of as, the way, as if, or as though, is informal; it has, however, been routine since the Middle English period. AHD4 says "Writers since Chaucer's time have used like as a conjunction, but 19th-century and 20th-century critics have been so vehement in their condemnations of this usage that a writer who uses the construction in formal style risks being accused of illiteracy or worse", and recommends using as in formal speech and writing. OED does not tag it as colloquial or nonstandard, but notes, "Used as conj[unction]: = 'like as', as. Now generally condemned as vulgar or slovenly, though examples may be found in many recent writers of standing."

派生語

• feel like
• like it's going out of style
• look like
• seem like
• sound like

前置詞

like

1. Similar to, reminiscent of
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[5]:

     She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎^[6]:

     When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

2. Typical of

   It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.

3. Approximating

   Popcorn costs something like $10 dollars at the movies.

4. In the manner of, similarly to

   He doesn't act like a president.

5. Such as

   It's for websites like Wikipedia.

6. As if there would be

   It looks like a hot summer in Europe.

7. Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something

   I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like?

   What's the weather like in Ürümqi today?

同意語

• (such as): for example, such as, (古風な用法) as

反意語

• unlike

派生語

• like a bull at a gate
• like a demon

不変化詞

like

1. Likely.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Mark Twain:

     “You'll try it, some day, like enough; but you'll get tired of the change pretty soon.” “Why?” “Well, I'll tell you. Now you've always been a sailor; did you ever try some other business?”

   • 1936, New Mexico: The Sunshine State's Recreational and Highway Magazine:

     If I can't spare the time—well, like as not we go anyhow. And where else can you ride all day with your saddle and neck full of snow brushed from the trees and still not freeze half to death?

2. (colloquial, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside, Teesside, Liverpudlian) A delayed filler.

   He was so angry, like.

3. (colloquial) Indicating approximation or uncertainty.

   There were, like, twenty of them.

   She was, like, sooooo happy.

   • 1972, Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, December 1:

     [Sally Brown:] Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is good.
     [Charlie Brown:] GIVING! The only real joy is GIVING!
     [Sally Brown, rolling her eyes:] Like, wow!

4. (colloquial, slang) Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.

   I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”

   And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.

   A customer walked in like, "I demand to see the manager!"

   • 2006, Lily Allen, Knock 'Em Out

     You're just doing your own thing and some one comes out the blue,

     They're like, "Alright"

     What ya saying, "Yeah can I take your digits?"

     And you're like, "no not in a million years, you're nasty please leave me alone."

   • 2014, Geoffrey Riddell, The Fly-ahead Boy, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 108:

     'It made this sky ripping noise, and then went like “bang”, real hard into the ground. A long way away but.'

使用する際の注意点

The use as a quotative is informal; it is commonly used by young people, and commonly disliked by older generations, especially in repeated use. It may be combined with the use of the present tense as a narrative. (For its use preceded by a form of be, see be like.) Similar terms are to go and all, as in I go, “Why did you do that?” and he goes, “I don't know” and I was all, “Why did you do that?” and he was all, “I don't know.” These expressions can imply that the attributed remark which follows is representative rather than necessarily an exact quotation; however, in speech these structures do tend to require mimicking the original speaker's inflection in a way said would not.