What does alike mean?
Alike means Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference..
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/əˈlaɪk/ · adjective
Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference..
Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.
The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
We are all alike concerned in religion.
As the Knight himself seemed tacitly to disclaim alike interest and controul over the immediate favourite of his lady, young Roland was, by circumstances, exempted from the strict discipline to which, as the retainer of a Scottish man of rank, he would otherwise have been subjected, according to all the rigour of the age.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
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Alike means Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference..
Common synonyms include likewise, like, similar.
Possible antonyms include unlike.
Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.
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