dislike
dis·like (dis līk′)
transitive verb disliked -·liked′, disliking -·lik′·ing
noun
- a feeling of not liking; distaste; aversion; antipathy
- something disliked
dislike
v.
Object
- smell: In addition people dislike the smell of cigarette smoke on others.
- idea: More than anything, Ms Toynbee dislikes the idea of giving young readers cause for being proud of who they were in being British.
- fact: Others dislike the fact that campuses are often some way from the city center.
Converse of object
- express: The management of scarce resources is a prime issue for the pass-on practice about which a number of people expressed dislike.
- take: I took an immediate dislike He has a hard look about him.
Adjective modifier
- instinctive: Some people seem to take an instinctive dislike to having attributes in an XML document whose content is 20 lines long.
- irrational: In the top ten was this little lady and I couldn't have explained my irrational dislike of her half as well as this.
- instant: Instant dislike has a strange effect on me - I tend to get flustered in my attempts to get people to like me.
- intense: What is wrong with encouraging intense dislike of a religion?
- mutual: Over the years, our friendship grew through our mutual love of music and mutual dislike for each other's football teams.
- strong: John Ellis had a very strong dislike of hanging women.
Modifies a noun
- sex: Twelve Ways to Make Your Spouse Dislike Sex It's really not difficult to ruin what could have been great sex.
Modifying Another Word
- intensly: I am fed up trying to be nice to someone I dislike intensly!
- personally: Noel: Is there any style that you personally dislike?
Preposition: of
We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight.
'I don't think I understand people very well.I only know whether Ilike ordislikethem.' 'Thenyouarean Oriental.'
Browse dictionary entries near dislike
- dislikable
- diskette
- disk wheel
- disk operating system
- disk jockey
- disk harrow
- disk flower
- disk
- disjuncture
- disjunctively
- dislikeable
- disliked
- disliking
- dislocate
- dislocated
- dislocating
- dislocation
- dislodge
- dislodged
- dislodging
