likest

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

like +‎ -est.

Verb[edit]

likest

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

Adjective[edit]

likest

  1. (archaic) superlative form of like: most like
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 500:
      Like neuer yet did liuing eie detect; / But likeſt it to an Hyena was, / That feeds on wemens flesh, as others feede on gras.
    • 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: [] J. M[acock] for John Starkey [], →OCLC, page 40:
      Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear, [].
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
      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 []

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Verb[edit]

likest

  1. second-person singular subjunctive I of liken

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Adjective[edit]

likest

  1. indefinite singular superlative degree of lik