look like

English

Etymology

From Middle English loken like, equivalent to look + like (conjunction and preposition).

Pronunciation

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Verb

look like (third-person singular simple present looks like, present participle looking like, simple past and past participle looked like)

1. (transitive) To resemble or have the appearance of being; to seem to be.

   It looks like rain later today.

   It looks like it will rain later today.

   It looks like I'm stuck with you.

   Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.

   You wake up on what looks like Salisbury Plain, but in Africa.

   The port does not look like much from the ground.

   (UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.

Derived terms

• if it looks like a duck

Related terms

• look alike

Translations

seem, appear

• Arabic: بَدَا (ar) (badā)
• Belarusian: выгляда́ць impf (vyhljadácʹ)
• Catalan: semblar ser
• Chickasaw: ahooba
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 看起來 / 看起来 (khòaⁿ-khí-lâi)

  Mandarin: 看起來 / 看起来 (zh) (kànqilai)

• Finnish: näyttää siltä, että
• French: sembler (fr)
• German: scheinen (de)
• Haitian Creole: sanble
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: se ut som om

• Old English: þyncan
• Portuguese: parecer (pt)
• Russian: напомина́ть (ru) impf (napominátʹ), вы́глядеть (ru) impf (výgljadetʹ), похо́же (ru) (poxóže) (it looks like)
• Spanish: parecer (es)
• Swedish: se ut (sv), verka (sv)
• Ukrainian: вигляда́ти impf (vyhljadáty)
• Vietnamese: giống như

be similar in appearance, resemble

• Arabic: شَبِهَ (ar) (šabiha)
• Belarusian: нага́дваць impf (nahádvacʹ)
• Catalan: assemblar-se a (ca), semblar (ca)
• Chickasaw: ahooba
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 像 (zh-min-nan) (chhiūⁿ, chhiǔⁿ, chhiōⁿ, siōng, siǒng, siāng)

  Mandarin: 像 (zh) (xiàng)

• Dutch: lijken op
• Finnish: muistuttaa (fi) (+ partitive), näyttää (fi) (+ ablative)
• French: ressembler (fr)
• Georgian: ჰგავს (hgavs)
• German: aussehen (de), ähneln (de)
• Greek: μοιάζω (el) (moiázo)
• Guaraní: jogua
• Haitian Creole: sanble
• Ingrian: voittiissa
• Italian: somigliare (it), assomigliare (it), rassomigliare (it)
• Japanese: らしい (ja) (rashii), っぽい (ja) (ppoi)
• Norman: r'semblier
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: se ut som, ligne (no), ligne på

• Nǀuu: tsʼaa
• Old English: gelician
• Persian: به ... شباهت داشتن (be ... šabâhat dâštan)
• Portuguese: parecer (pt)
• Romanian: semăna (ro)
• Russian: напомина́ть (ru) impf (napominátʹ), похо́же (ru) (poxóže) (it looks like)
• Spanish: parecerse a
• Swedish: likna (sv)
• Ukrainian: нага́дувати impf (naháduvaty)
• Vietnamese: giống như

References

• “look like”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.