likensomeone/somethingtosomeone/something
phrasal verbwithlikenverbuk/ˈlaɪ.kən/us/ˈlaɪ.kən/
to say that someone issimilarto or has the samequalitiesas someoneelse:
She's been likened to ayoungElizabeth Taylor.
Comparing and contrasting
- analogy
- antithesis
- apple
- as againstidiom
- balance
- balancesomethingagainstsomething
- comparative
- competitive
- competitively
- contradistinction
- contrast
- contrastive
- gold standard
- measure
- perspective
- relative
- relatively
- relativist
- self-differentiation
- stack up