look like

---

Verb

look like

1. (idiomatic, impersonal) To seem; appear.

   It looks like I'm stuck with you.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To be similar in appearance to; resemble.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy.

   Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.

Related terms

• look alike

Translations

• French: sembler
• German: scheinen
• Portuguese: parecer
• Russian: напомина́ть
• Spanish: parecer

Translations

• French: ressembler
• German: aussehen, ähneln
• Italian: somigliare, assomigliare, rassomigliare
• Portuguese: parecer
• Russian: напомина́ть
• Spanish: parecerse a

---

This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002