Looks vs Resembles - What's the difference?
looks | resembles |
(pluralonly) One's appearance or attractiveness.
(look)
(resemble)
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(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
As verbs the difference between looks and resembles
is that looks is (look) while resembles is (resemble).As a noun looks
is .looks
English
Noun
(head)- His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls.
- Looks can be deceiving.
Verb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----resembles
English
Verb
(head)resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.
