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DISLIKE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

Synonyms:

disapproval; disfavor; disfavour; dislike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

Example:

my dislike of him was instinctive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have or feel a dislike or distaste for

Example:

I really dislike this salesman

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

"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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I can't follow the fashions in the things I like or dislike.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He in turn had friends among the indoor servants who unite in their fear and dislike of their master.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognise in him a certain Mr. Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was more than a mere prejudice or dislike.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is an expression, Sir John, said Marianne, warmly, which I particularly dislike.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The latter peculiarity took the form of a dislike to being left alone, especially after dark.

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

“Archer,” quoth Hordle John, “you have lied more than once and more than twice; for which, and also because I see much in you to dislike, I am sorely tempted to lay you upon your back.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)