Mislike

Quick meaning: Mislike is a verb meaning To disapprove of or dislike (someone or something); to have an aversion to.

Meaning

To disapprove of or dislike (someone or something); to have an aversion to.

More Meanings

1. To displease or offend (someone).
2. To displease or offend.
3. To disapprove; also, to be displeased or unhappy.
4. To become sickly or weak due to poor health; to waste away.
5. (uncountable, archaic) Aversion or distaste for something; dislike; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.
6. Lack of comfort; discomfort; also, difficulty; trouble; or sadness; unhappiness.
7. The characteristic or state of incapacity, physical distress, or weakness due to poor health; sickliness; (countable) an instance of this.

Example Sentences

VVell; he is a very handſome, vvell-accompliſh'd, vvell-bred Gentleman; ſhe cannot miſlike him; he is a moſt agreeable young Gentleman I aſſure you.

VVhat he liketh or miſliketh, it maketh not much Matter. For he miſliketh the Goſpel, true Religion, and theſe our Times. But he ought of right, moſt of all to miſlike himſelf.

In latter years some of the better and nicer sort, misliking Joan, have mollified the name of Joan into Jane, as it may seem, for that Jane is never found in old Records; and as some will, never before the time of King Henry the eight.

What is there, then, ye will say to me, in this third ordinance which thou so mislikest? I will answer you in a few words. I mislike the changing of the laws of our fathers, specially when these laws have respect to the worship of the gods.

Word Forms

• mislikes
• misliking
• misliked

Synonyms for mislike

Depending on context, synonyms include disaffection, dissension.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mislook, miskeep, misplease, mislove, misprovide, misassume.

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