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looking like

looking like is the present participle and gerund of look like.

Meaning of look like

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.

Questions about looking like

What is looking like the present participle and gerund of?
Looking like is the present participle and gerund of look like.

Words near looking like in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looking like (page history and authors); look like (page history and authors). 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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