Dislikest vs Mislikest - What's the difference?
dislikest | mislikest |
(archaic) (dislike)
(obsolete) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.)
*, II.12:
To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
(archaic) (mislike)
(archaic) To displease.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to.
* I. Taylor
*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 [...].’
to dislike
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between dislikest and mislikest
is that dislikest is (archaic) (dislike) while mislikest is (archaic) (mislike).As verbs the difference between dislikest and mislikest
is that dislikest is (archaic) (dislike) while mislikest is (archaic) (mislike).dislikest
English
Verb
(head)dislike
English
Verb
(dislik)- customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike .
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeAntonyms
* likeSee also
* abhor * despise * detest * hate * loathemislikest
English
Verb
(head)mislike
English
Verb
- Mote not mislike you also to abate / Your zealous hast, till morrow next againe / Both light of heauen, and strength of men relate [...].
- Who may like or mislike what he says.