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look like

look like verb: to resemble or have the appearance of being; to seem to be.

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.

look like meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Arabic and Malay

look like in Tamil

இவர், ஒப்பாரி

look like in Malayalam

look similar to, resemble, bear a resemblance to
ഒരേ ഛായ തോന്നുക, ഒരു പോലെയിരിക്കുക, സദൃശമായിരിക്കുക, സാദൃശ്യം തോന്നുക, സാദൃശ്യമുണ്ടായിരിക്കുക, ഒരുപോലെ തോന്നുക

look like in Arabic

to resemble, to seem to be
شَبِهَ šabiha, بَدَا badā

look like in Malay

to resemble, to seem to be
sebiji, sebijik, serupa, macam, nampak, tampak
More languagesFewer languages
look like in Persian
به ... شباهت داشتن be ... šabâhat dâštan
look like in Vietnamese
giống như

Examples of look like in a sentence

  • Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.
  • The port does not look like much from the ground.

Forms of look like

third-person singular presentlooks like
present participlelooking like
past participlelooked like
pastlooked like

Origin of look like

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

Words formed from look like

Questions about look like

What does look like mean?
Look like means to resemble or have the appearance of being; to seem to be.
What is look like in Tamil?
Look like in Tamil is இவர், ஒப்பாரி. See Look like meaning in Tamil.
How do you use look like in a sentence?
Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.
What part of speech is look like?
Look like is a verb.
What is the past tense of look like?
The past tense of look like is looked like.

Words near look like in the dictionary

  1. look in
  2. look in on
  3. look in the face
  4. look into
  5. look it
  6. look like
  7. look like a bomb has hit it
  8. look like one swallowed a bug
  9. look like something the cat brought in
  10. look like something the cat dragged in
  11. look like something the cat's dragged in

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: look like (page history and authors); look like (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); look like (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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