DISLIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dislike mean? 

• DISLIKE (noun)
  The noun DISLIKE has 2 senses:

1. an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

2. a feeling of aversion or antipathy

  Familiarity information: DISLIKE used as a noun is rare.

• DISLIKE (verb)
  The verb DISLIKE has 1 sense:

1. have or feel a dislike or distaste for

  Familiarity information: DISLIKE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISLIKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

disapproval; disfavor; disfavour; dislike

Hypernyms ("dislike" is a kind of...):

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dislike"):

doghouse (an idiomatic term for being in disfavor)

reprobation (severe disapproval)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A feeling of aversion or antipathy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

my dislike of him was instinctive

Hypernyms ("dislike" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dislike"):

disinclination (that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike)

Anglophobia (dislike (or fear) of Britain and British customs)

unfriendliness (dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness)

alienation; disaffection; estrangement (the feeling of being alienated from other people)

antipathy; aversion; distaste (a feeling of intense dislike)

disapproval (a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing)

contempt; despite; disdain; scorn (lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike)

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

creepy-crawlies (feelings of dislike and anxiety)

scunner (a strong dislike)

technophobia (dislike for new technology)

antagonism (an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility)

Antonym:

liking (a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment)

Derivation:

dislike (have or feel a dislike or distaste for)

• DISLIKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dislike    ... he / she / it dislikes   
Past simple: disliked   
Past participle: disliked   
-ing form: disliking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have or feel a dislike or distaste for

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

I really dislike this salesman

"Dislike" entails doing...:

disapprove (consider bad or wrong)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dislike"):

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

detest; hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s INFINITIVE

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot dislike Sue
Sam and Sue dislike the movie

Antonym:

like (find enjoyable or agreeable)

Derivation:

dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)

 Context examples 

They disliked me; and they sullenly, sternly, steadily, overlooked me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And to ask me in such a way too! without ceremony, before them all, so as to leave me no possibility of refusing. That is what I dislike most particularly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had always disliked to have it touched.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the intrusion of other matters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I dislike Mr. Davis's manner of teaching and don't think the girls you associate with are doing you any good, so I shall ask your father's advice before I send you anywhere else.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had taken a dislike to him at first, and as he helped to dress me this dislike increased.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That is, I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"And what a sweet-tempered forehead he has!" cried Louisa,—"so smooth—none of those frowning irregularities I dislike so much; and such a placid eye and smile!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She would take place of me then, and Henrietta would not dislike that.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)