likable vs likeable
Definitions
adjective
- (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
- easy to like; agreeable
Examples
Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
There's even more proof in the new duets album: While the pairings add to the jollity Lady Gaga is amazingly likable, and not at all trampy, on "The Lady Is a Tramp", the real attraction is Mr. Bennett himself.
Amusing, instantly likable, and whip-smart, he's in possession of a life so unconventional and fantastical, it's more twisted than fiction.
Definitions
adjective
- (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
- easy to like; agreeable
Examples
But the world is not full of exclusively charming and likeable people.
The debut in spring 2006 of HBO's television series, Big Love, which featured a fictional and in some ways likeable polygamous family in Utah, propelled polygamy to the front pages of American newspapers and put the idea of legalized polygamy "in play" in some surprising quarters.
Being attractive and likeable can be the small, notionally "irrelevant" factor that helps to tip the balance in our favor.
