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dislike

/dɪˈslaɪk/

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What does dislike mean?

noun

  1. An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
  2. Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
  3. An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
More meanings (3)

verb

  1. To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
  2. To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
  3. (obsolete) To displease; to offend. In third-person only.

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IPA pronunciation

/dɪˈslaɪk/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Mr. Waite—torn between his respect for my lord and his dislike of that particular type of joke—only replied with a doubtful grunt.
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelProject Gutenberg ebook #60
“Yes, ultimately,” said Mrs. Garth, who having a special dislike to fine words on ugly occasions, could not now repress an epigram.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
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And yet he made few false steps and wasted little time in theories of what he ought to like and to dislike.
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
“You’ll never really dislike me so long as I give you the opportunity to get off a good thing now and then.”
W. Somerset (William Somerset) MaughamThe Moon and SixpenceProject Gutenberg ebook #222
One of her characteristic traits was a dislike to being seen, even by those nearest to her, when she was not well.
Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver JordanThe Story of a PioneerProject Gutenberg ebook #354