Dislike Dis·like" noun 1. A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness . God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin.
Hammond. The hint malevolent, the look oblique,
The obvious satire, or implied dislike .
Hannah More. We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox.
J. Morley. His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories.
A. W. Ward. 2. Discord; dissension. [ Obsolete]
Fairfax. Syn. -- Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. --
Dislike ,
Aversion ,
Reluctance ,
Repugnance ,
Disgust ,
Antipathy .
Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but
antipathy ,
repugnance ,
disgust , and
aversion are more intense phases of
dislike .
Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an
aversion to or for business.
Reluctance and
repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (
repugnance being the stronger); as, a
reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a
repugnance to the submission required.
Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a
disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness.
Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an
aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a
reluctance and
repugnance to what crosses their will; a
disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by
antipathies for which they can give no good reason.