likewise

From Middle English lykewise, lykewyse, lyke wyse, lijk wise, a shortened form of Middle English in lik wise (“in like wise”); equivalent to like +‎ -wise. Compare with otherwise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/

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• Hyphenation: like‧wise

likewise (not comparable)

1. (manner) In a similar manner.

   Synonym: thuswise

   Antonym: otherwise

   Public transportation is virtually inaccessible in this country; likewise, its hospitals are also not very user-friendly.

   • 1971, Mark Selden, “From Land Revolution to United Front: The Shen-Kan-Ning Soviet, 1935–1936”, in The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China‎^[1], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:

     Chu Li-chih in late 1941 was director of the board of trade and president of the Border Region Bank in the Shen-Kan-Ning border government. Kuo Hung-t'ao served as secretary of the Shen-Kan-Ning Party Committee, the highest party post in the area, until 1938, when he was transferred to the Shansi-Chahar-Hopeh area where he likewise became secretary of the Party Committee. After Kuo's transfer, Kao Kang replaced his rival in the top party post in Shen-Kan-Ning and thereafter steadily increased his power within the border region as the leading figure among Shensi communists.

2. (conjunctive) also; moreover; too.

   Margaret enjoys playing tennis on Saturdays, Jeremy likewise.

   • 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 179, column 1:

     "But it looks like the kid ain't got no appetite to git well, for they misses him from the tent in the night and finds him rootin' in the grass, and likewise a drizzle fallin'. 'G'wan,' he says, 'lemme go and die like I wanter. He said I was a liar and a fake'—McGuire says—'and I was playin' sick. Lemme alone.'

3. The same to you; used as a response.

   It was very nice meeting you, Samantha. ― Likewise, Mr Thompson.

   ‘Let me know if you need any help.’ ‘Likewise.’

• (in a similar manner): similarly

• “likewise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “likewise”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• wise-like, wiselike