likeness
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈlaɪknəs/
- Housed in a two-story frame building, the museum featured wax likenesses of noteworthy individuals.
- image and likeness
- likeness of the portrait
- capture the likeness
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Watch on YouTubeSome send photographs, the likeness in case the body can't return.
- Some send photographs, the likeness in case the body can't return.
- I'm not sure Fran Drescher approved of her likeness in this doll.
- And one more thing, their likenesses cast no shadows, nor do the hounds themselves.
- And you know, we'll use my brand, my likeness, everything.
- What they're saying is they can make money off of their likeness, right?
- So David Goggins should have the right to say who gets to use his name, likeness and image for a commercial purpose.
- And they basically have synthetic actors, so real actors who've licensed their likeness on their platform.
- But going in, obviously your clip goes viral and you now have a shirt because guys can now monetize the name, image and likeness with the new NIL world.
- Now, while the names and the likenesses have been changed just a little bit, the story you're about to see is true.
- Anselm's not a dummy, so he doesn't think that when he gives some sort of likeness that it's exactly like this, right?
- Nick Foles and Doug Peterson have a statue that is a likeness of them.
Examples
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Everyone agreed that the photograph was an accurate likeness of the celebrity.
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It's a pretty good likeness, I'd say.
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It's not a bad likeness, if you ask me.
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It's not a very good likeness though, is it?
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It's a perfect likeness of you!
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He'll produce a likeness based on your description.
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Yes, it's a very good likeness of General de Gaulle.
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Obama is hardly the first president whose physical likeness has been the subject of devotional art.
Academic text (2009) -
A true portrait should present a complete and satisfactory likeness of the person or animal being photographed.
Academic text (1995) -
Jordy takes the sketch of Daphne, which isn't a bad likeness, and heads for the door.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
A picture showing a person or thing
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3.2
A picture showing a person, made by a painter or photographer
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3.5
A picture or model that shows what something looks like
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4.1
An act of showing someone or something in a certain way
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4.0
A picture or other image that shows what something looked like
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3.9
A picture that represents a person, thing, or idea
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9.9
Something that looks like the real thing but is not
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3.8
A picture in your mind of something you have seen
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4.0
A picture or statue that shows what a person looks like
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4.3
A picture that shows something, like a scene or object
Antonyms
How Lifelike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Likeness can also mean a 'picture' or portrait of someone, because it uses the same root like; a likeness is an image that shows how a person looks and so shows their similarity to the real person.