likeness

parecido, semejanza

Parecido entre dos personas o cosas en su aspecto o sus cualidades.

En inglés sencillo: The way two people or things look alike or share similar qualities.

• There is a family likeness.
• His likeness to his grandfather surprised us.
• Did you notice the likeness between their voices?

Cómo se usa: likeness to someone/something (Her likeness to her mother is remarkable.); likeness between A and B (There is a strong likeness between the two designs.)

Sinónimos: similarity, resemblance

Antónimos: difference, dissimilarity

Expresiones frecuentes: striking likeness, family likeness, likeness to someone

retrato, representación

Imagen o modelo que muestra el aspecto de una persona o cosa.

En inglés sencillo: A picture or model made to show what a person or thing looks like.

• The drawing is a good likeness.
• She painted a likeness of her grandmother.
• The museum displays several likenesses of the king.

Cómo se usa: likeness of someone/something (The artist made a bronze likeness of the singer.)

Sinónimos: portrait, representation, image

Expresiones frecuentes: good likeness, likeness of someone, paint a likeness, faithful likeness

forma, apariencia

La apariencia o forma que tiene una persona o cosa.

En inglés sencillo: The appearance or shape of someone or something.

• The creature appeared in human likeness.
• The statue was shaped in the likeness of a bird.
• In the story, a god takes the likeness of an old man.

Cómo se usa: in the likeness of someone/something (The spirit appeared in the likeness of a child.)

Sinónimos: form, appearance, guise

Expresiones frecuentes: in human likeness, in the likeness, take someone’s likeness