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Dislike vs Mislike - What's the difference?

dislike | mislike |

Mislike is a antonym of dislike.



As verbs the difference between dislike and mislike

is that dislike is to displease; to offend. (In third-person only. while mislike is to displease.

As a noun dislike

is an attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.

dislike

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.

    • Verb

    (dislik)
  • (obsolete) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.)
  • *, II.12:
    • customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike .
  • To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Antonyms

    * like

    See also

    * abhor * despise * detest * hate * loathe

    mislike

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To displease.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
    • Mote not mislike you also to abate / Your zealous hast, till morrow next againe / Both light of heauen, and strength of men relate [...].
  • To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Who may like or mislike what he says.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 130:
  • *:And she found she didn't mislike him any longer, she felt queer and strange to him, not feared […].
  • * 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 492:
  • *:‘Much as we may mislike her talk of the late cardinal appearing to her, and devils in her bedchamber, she speaks in this way because she has been taught to ape the claims of certain nuns who went before her [...].’

    • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

  • to dislike

    • References

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