Talk:likest

Owen Feltham citation: really an adjective?
"Surely, estates be then best, when they are likest [i.e. most like] minds that be worst": they are like certain minds. The appropriate sense of like is a preposition ("X is like Y"; not "X and Y are like"). These don't normally take -est! How confusing. Equinox ◑ 03:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC)