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noun

dislike n.

1.

A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; the opposite of liking or fondness. "God's grace... gives him continual dislike to sin." "The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike." "We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox." "His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories."

2.

Discord; dissension. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. Dislike, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance, Disgust, Antipathy. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason.

verb

Dislike v. t. (past & past part. disliked; pres. part. disliking)

1.

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. "Every nation dislikes an impost."

2.

To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." "It dislikes me."

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"Dislike" Quotes from Famous Books

... look at her, his disapproval and dislike melted. "I was brutally harsh to her," he ...

— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips

... time to time when he caught the inquisitive glance of some stranger. He had that dislike of being stared at which comes on geniuses late in life, and never leaves the commonplace. Sibyl, however, was quite unconscious of the effect she was producing. Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. She was thinking of Prince ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... There are thousands such, living in serene girlhood, wifehood, or widowhood, to be found in the villages and country towns of dear old England. With but very few exceptions, they are kindly-natured, unimaginative, imbued with a shrinking dislike of any exaggerated display of emotion; in some ways amazingly broad-minded, in others curiously limited in their outlook on life. Such women, as a rule, present few points of interest to students of human nature, for they are almost invariably true to type, their virtues and ...

— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... school I had been frequently taken at advantage by a bigger boy. He had twice my strength—he took a strong dislike for me—perhaps, because I was unwilling to pay him that deference, which, as school-bully, he extorted from all others;—and he drubbed me accordingly, whenever an opportunity occurred. My resistance was vain, and only stimulated him to increased brutality. One ...

— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms

... cowed, not so much at these mysterious words as at a hard, lowering look in the man's face, like especial dislike. ...

— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

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