ALIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alike mean? 

• ALIKE (adjective)
  The adjective ALIKE has 1 sense:

1. having the same or similar characteristics

  Familiarity information: ALIKE used as an adjective is very rare.

• ALIKE (adverb)
  The adverb ALIKE has 2 senses:

1. equally

2. in a like manner

  Familiarity information: ALIKE used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALIKE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the same or similar characteristics

Synonyms:

alike; like; similar

Context example:

friends are generally alike in background and taste

Attribute:

alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

Antonym:

unalike (not alike or similar)

Derivation:

alikeness (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

• ALIKE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equally

Synonyms:

alike; likewise

Context example:

parents and teachers alike demanded reforms

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a like manner

Context example:

they walk alike

 Context examples 

Understanding the foundations of human thought is fascinating for scientists and laypersons alike.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She lay in that heavy stupor, alike unconscious of hope and joy, doubt and danger.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If we thought alike of Miss Bingley, replied Jane, your representation of all this might make me quite easy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“I declare,” said my mother, gently, “they are exactly alike. I suppose they are mine. I think they are the colour of mine. But they are wonderfully alike.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, all dull alike: but I soon found I was mistaken.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In one point, I am sure, my dear cousin, (he continued, speaking lower, though there was no one else in the room) in one point, I am sure, we must feel alike.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Martin's tone and face alike showed his dejection.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Astronomy enthusiasts and scientists alike were excitedly hoping to find out more about this unprecedented dimming.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

You are aware that no two thumb-marks are alike?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unless they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)