Synonyms for Likened:

adj.
• comparative
- allegorical
- analogous
- comparable
- comparative
- contrasting
- metaphorical
- parallel
- similar
v.
• compared
- Allegorized
- Contrasted
- Paralleled
- matched
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Compared

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- Verb, past tense
  compare, preferred, suggested, tied, Believed, Resembled, Compared, rationalized.
- Verb, past participle
  absorbed, acquired, assigned, assumed, classified, confused, considered, credited, identified, ingested, learned, matched, measured, reconciled, retained, treated, understood, verified, Assimilated, Captured, Deemed, Equated, Grounded, Mapped, Regarded, Weighed, Compared, Contrasted, Counted, benchmarked, internalized.

What are the hypernyms for Likened?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
assign, compare, correlate, establish, imply, refer, relate, suggest.

Usage examples for Likened

A hill-top he saw in the distance he Likened to himself; resisting until the last moment, but without avail, for the darkness was gradually climbing up its sides, and would soon cover it.

"The Mystery of the Locks"

Edgar Watson Howe

Indeed, Mr. Thackeray was once heard to say that it would not surprise him to meet Lewes in Piccadilly, riding on a white elephant; whilst another wit Likened him to the Wandering Jew, as you could never tell where he was going to turn up, or what he was going to do next.

"George Eliot"

Mathilde Blind

Kaffres, that have receded in the greatest degree from the Negro type, have been so Likened to the more southern Arabs as to have engendered the hypothesis of an infusion of Arab blood.

"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"

Robert Gordon Latham

Famous quotes with Likened

I think, ofttimes, that lives of men may be Likened to wandering winds that come and go Not knowing whence they rise, whither they blow Oâ€™er the vast globe, voiceful of grief or glee.

Paul Hamilton Hayne

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