likest

English

Etymology

like +‎ -est.

Verb

likest

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of like

Adjective

likest

1. (archaic) superlative form of like: most like
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Like neuer yet did liuing eye detect; / But likest it to an Hyena was, / That feeds on womens flesh, as others feede on gras.

   • John Milton, Paradise Regained

     Then forthwith to him takes a chosen band, / Of spirits likest to himself in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear.

   • Owen Feltham

     Surely, estates be then best, when they are likest minds that be worst: I mean, neither hot, nor cold: neither distended with too much, nor narrowly pent […]

Anagrams

• KLites, Kleist, Litkes

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German

Verb

likest

1. (deprecated template usage) Second-person singular subjunctive I of liken.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

likest

1. indefinite superlative degree of lik