Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To regard with distaste or aversion.
- noun An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To annoy; vex; displease.
- To be displeased with; regard with some aversion or displeasure; disrelish; not to like.
- noun The feeling of being displeased; fixed aversion or distaste; repugnance; the attitude of one's mind toward one who or that which is disagreeable.
- noun Discord; disagreement.
- noun Synonyms Hatred, Dislike, Antipathy, etc. (see
antipathy ); disrelish, distaste, disapprobation. Disfavor, Dishonor, etc. Seeodium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
- transitive verb To awaken dislike in; to displease.
- noun A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of
liking orfondness . - noun obsolete Discord; dissension.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
attitude or afeeling ofdistaste oraversion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
- verb have or feel a dislike or distaste for
- noun a feeling of aversion or antipathy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Huskers fans are imagining conspiracies against their team, convinced that anyone else's dislike is code for jealousy of all Nebraska's awesomeness.
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They may well be dismayed at the changes they don't like ... but at the very heart of their dislike is their dislike for a man of color in the highest seat in the land!
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The primary cause of the dislike is the multiple year contracts that cell phone companies try so hard to force people into.
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Huskers fans are imagining conspiracies against their team, convinced that anyone else’s dislike is code for jealousy of all Nebraska’s awesomeness.
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Why anyone would waste their time reading and commenting on something they dislike is beyond me
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What the liberal Jews on the non-far-left dislike is internal pressure from some parts of the Jewish community to publicly support Israel no matter what.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jews, Liberalism, Nationalism–Some Interesting Historical Continuities 2010
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To me, treating women as if they are less than full human beings, that is, to see them only as an image that you like or dislike, is an act of hatred.
The gawker issue: Clearly, this type of behavior affects us all 2009
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They went about creating the Mighty Wurlitzer in order to create the impression everything they dislike is unpopular and then they created their own media to declare it as such and go about the task of making it unpopular.
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To me, treating women as if they are less than full human beings, that is, to see them only as an image that you like or dislike, is an act of hatred.
The gawker issue: Clearly, this type of behavior affects us all 2009
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My eggplant dislike is well-known in my husband's family.
Roasted Baby Eggplant aka TBTAM 2009
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