-like

Etymology
From, , from , , from and. Reinforced by. . Compare also 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1) Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns).
 * 2) * 1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark"
 * Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind
 * 1) * 1996, Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game page 128 under "Dark"
 * Damage: Those with normal, human-like vision are blind

Usage notes

 * 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.


 * Though -like shares many meanings with -ly, -ly is most often paired with animate nouns while -like pairs with both animate and inanimate nouns. Thus one hears manly and friendly more often than and . Exceptions such as childlike must therefore be learned by heart.

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

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: -կերպ, -նման
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: -般, 如-, 類-
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: -eca
 * Finnish:, , -n kaltainen
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: -ებრ, -ებრი, -ვით
 * German:, -ähnlich
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latin: -oides
 * Malayalam: പോലത്തെ
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: -podobny
 * Russian: -подо́бный
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:, , , , , , , , , , ,