Like
Like verb - To wish to have.
Take pleasure and like are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take pleasure" instead a verb "Like".
Take pleasure
Like and take pleasure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Like" instead a verb phrase "Take pleasure".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Deconstructor Fleet: Marciuliano seems to take pleasure is showing how off-putting a sitcom-like family would be in the real world.
- It's really more because he wants to ask God why someone like him, a person only able to take pleasure in the suffering of others but still plagued with a conscience, was allowed to be born.
Source: Affably Evil / Video Games -
Dr. Mark Sloan in Diagnosis: Murder occasionally made his rounds on rollerskates, made latex gloves into balloons, seemed to take pleasure in driving hospital administrator Norman Briggs into apoplexy and generally acted, well, like a character played by Dick Van Dyke.
Source: Bunny-Ears Lawyer
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Take pleasure and Like. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/like/take_pleasure
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