likeable

From like +‎ -able.

likeable (comparative more likeable or likeabler, superlative most likeable or likeablest)

1. (often British spelling) Alternative spelling of likable.
   • 1901 August 16, Shan F[adh] Bullock, “Bulldog”, in Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser, and Guardian, and East and Mid Cheshire Gazette, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     All the better that she was no dandy; all the likeabler that she spoke little; all the safer that she ruled the father an’ was a mistress in the house.

   • 1946, Zane Grey, chapter 11, in Shadow on the Trail, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, →OCLC, page 139:

     He was about the likeablest cuss I ever met. We got to be good friends.

   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.

   • 1974 October 3, Jack Anderson, “Washington merry-go-round: The senator from Ashland Oil”, in Hattiesburg American, volume LXXXIX, number 275, Hattiesburg, Miss., →OCLC, page 8, column 4:

     My associate, Jack Cloherty, spent a month establishing the links between Ashland the senator, an investigation which took Cloherty from Capitol Hill to Kentucky. The likeabler Cook, of course, had an explanation for everything. He acknowledged that he has accepted speech material from Ashland, but denied that it came in the form of ready-made speeches.