parallelism, correspondence, alikeness, closeness; sameness, uniformity, homogeneity,
likewise, adv. 1. moreover, futhermore, additionally, in addition, above and beyond, over and above; also, too, to boot, into the bargain, besides.
2. in like manner, in the same way, similarly,
liking, n. preference, favor, favoritism, partiality, bias; fondness, love, attraction, affinity, soft spot, weakness; taste, penchant, eye, appreciation; fancy, inclination, bent, leaning, tendency; predilection, propensity, proclivity, predisposal, disposition, mind.
Lilliputian, adj. 1. diminutive, tiny, wee, Inf. teeny, All Baby Talk, itty-bitty, eensy-weensy, teensy, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy; miniscule, microscopic, atomic, animalculine, animalculous; miniature, small-scale, pocket-sized, bantam, short, abridged; small, little, elfin, mini, pint-sized, Inf. baby; petite, delicate, dainty, minikin; homuncular, midget, dwarfish, Med. nanoid, pygmy, pygmoid, pygmish; undersized, underweight, lightweight, featherweight, flyweight, bantamweight; puny, runty, thin, slight, skinny.
-n. 2. midget, homunculus, little man, minikin, pygmy, dwarf; chit, fingerling, dapperling, cock-sparrow, hop-o'-my-thumb, Tom Thumb, Chiefly Scot. wee fellow or lad or one, Obs. pigwidgin, Archaic. dandiprat; shrimp, runt, little runt, pee-wee, squirt, pipsqueak, Inf. half-pint, small fry, Inf. shorty; gnome, (in Scandanavian folklore) troll, goblin, hobgoblin, (in German folklore) kobold, Irish Folklore. leprechaun, Chiefly Brit, little person; elf, puck, imp, fairy, fay, sprite, sylph,
lilt, n. 1. swing, upswing, rhythm, cadence, measure; beat, pulsation; wave, sway, dip, dance.
2. cheerful song, pleasant song, tune, air, melody, lyric; Music, scherzo, Music, allegretto, Music. allegro.
lily-livered, adj. cowardly, coward, pusillanimous, Sl. yellow-bellied; uncourageous, unvaliant, unvalor-ous, unheroic, ungallant; unintrepid, undaring, Inf. spunkless; timid, timorous, unable to say “boo” to a goose, afraid, afraid of one's own shadow, fearful, Sl. fraidy-cat; fainthearted, chickenhearted, yellow, with a yellow strip a mile wide down one's back; unmanly, spineless, unaggressive, ineffectual, effete,
lily-white, adj. 1. white, pure white, white as snow, pale, white-skinned, untannned, milk-white, ivory, ivory-skinned, porcelain; palid, wan, sallow, sickly looking, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a ghost, white as a sheet, bleached out; anemic, bloodless, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, ashen, chalky.
2. uncorrupted, uncorrupt, unsinful, uniniquitous, undissolute, undebauched, undepraved, undegenerate; innocent, pure, chaste, pure-hearted, modest; virgin, virginal, spotless, undefiled; stainless, unstained, unsoiled, unsullied, taintless, untainted, uninfected; clean, clean as a whistle, clean as snow, clean as a fresh sheet.
3. racist, racially prejudiced, biased, bigoted; discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory; segregated, segregative, segregational; all-white, (of neighborhoods) exclusive, unmixed, unintegrated.
-n. 4. racist, segregationist, discriminator; Nazi, Ku Klux Klanner, member of the Klan; Inf. redneck,
limb, n. 1. part, member, appendage, extension, extremity; wing, arm, leg, Inf gam, Inf. pin, Brit. Dial, lith; artifical leg or arm, prosthesis; branch, projection, spur.
2. offshoot, shoot, scion, descendant, heir, offspring, child, Inf. chip off the old block.
3. Informal, limb of Satan, imp, devil, scamp, rascal, bad boy, Peck's bad boy.
4. out on a limb Informal, vulnerable, overextended, in a precarious situation, too close to the wind, with all one's eggs in one basket, with one's head in the lion's mouth.