likening

Antonyms for likening

late 13c., "to represent as like," from like (adj.) + -en (1). Related: Likened; likening.

If she says she is sorry for likening me to Winfield, I will tell her who sent the roses.

To the first part alone he gave his approval, likening it to the Song of Solomon.

He was fond of likening his suite of office rooms to the bottom of a ship.

It is hard to say what "exquisite reason" Cervantes can have had for likening a girl's eyes to emeralds above all other gems.

The policeman's figure of speech, likening the lodgers to "herrings in a barrel," accurately described the scene.

But her nature, which the lover had greatly belied in likening it to her name, was not cold enough for this.

Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!

A scientific theory has been described as "the likening of our imaginings to what we actually observe."

He tried an explanation by likening the dissension to a wrangle in a civilised family over an unjust division of property.

He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.