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UNLIKABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unlikable mean?
• UNLIKABLE (adjective)
The adjective UNLIKABLE has 2 senses:
1. (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings
2. difficult or impossible to like
Familiarity information: UNLIKABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings
Synonyms:
unappealing; unlikable; unlikeable; unsympathetic
Context example:
all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic
Domain category:
drama (the literary genre of works intended for the theater)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Difficult or impossible to like
Synonyms:
unlikable; unlikeable
Context example:
a disagreeable and unlikable old woman
Similar:
disliked (regarded with aversion)
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