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See definition of be like on Dictionary.com
  • as inapproach
  • as inborder on
  • as inimitate
  • as intake after

synonyms for be like

  • come
  • contact
  • match
  • meet
  • near
  • reach
  • surround
  • threaten
  • advance
  • approximate
  • bear
  • border
  • buzz
  • converge
  • equal
  • impend
  • progress
  • resemble
  • be comparable to
  • belly up to
  • catch up
  • close in
  • come at
  • come close
  • compare with
  • correspond to
  • creep up
  • draw near
  • gain on
  • go toward
  • loom up
  • move in on
  • move toward
  • take after
  • verge upon
On this page you'll find 149 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to be like, such as: come, contact, match, meet, near, and reach.

antonyms for be like

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  • avoid
  • depart
  • go
  • leave
  • miss
  • decrease
  • retreat
  • retrogress
  • stop
  • distance
  • go away
  • differ
  • tell the truth
  • disregard
  • clash
  • oppose
  • reverse
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    How to use be like in a sentence

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    "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
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    His strong legs and his broad, spade-like feet helped to make him a fine swimmer.
    THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY
    The wave-like movement of these animals is particularly graceful and cleverly done.
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    These dreamy, Madonna-like beauties are the result of the most severe and protracted study.
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    Rarely, sodium urate occurs in crystalline form—slender prisms, arranged in fan- or sheaf-like structures (Fig. 32).
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    The building, a mosque-like structure of considerable size, was situated in the midst of a grove of mango trees.
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    Everything showed a rapid flight; even the would-be dinner of the guerrillas was found half cooked.
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    When rapidly deposited, as by artificial precipitation, triple phosphate often takes feathery, star- or leaf-like forms.
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    The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes needle-like.
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