LIKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liked mean? 

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

1. found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form

Context example:

a well-liked teacher

Similar:

likable; likeable (easy to like; agreeable)

Antonym:

disliked (regarded with aversion)

 Context examples 

“Not such a one as this, Mr. Copperfield wouldn't have liked,” said Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

White Fang did not run away, though he was allowed to remain loose, because he liked this new god.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Laurie knew them abroad, and liked the boys.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A great many gentlemen and ladies came to see mama, and I used to dance before them, or to sit on their knees and sing to them: I liked it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"It would not be a great match for her; but if Henrietta liked him,"— and Henrietta did seem to like him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You have liked many a stupider person.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The people about court did not at all know what use they could make of him, but they liked him, and told him to stay.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A question about whether an individual likes or liked the appearance of their body.

(Like My Body Appearance, NCI Thesaurus)

I've always liked you, I have, for a lad of spirit, and the picter of my own self when I was young and handsome.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was pushed down, but he stopped every blow, and I liked the look on his face as he got up again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)