Reject vs Dislike - What's the difference?
reject | dislike |
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
(obsolete) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.)
*, II.12:
To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
In lang=en terms the difference between reject and dislike
is that reject is to refuse to accept while dislike is to have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.As verbs the difference between reject and dislike
is that reject is to refuse to accept while dislike is (obsolete|transitive) to displease; to offend (in third-person only).As nouns the difference between reject and dislike
is that reject is something that is rejected while dislike is an attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.reject
English
(wikipedia reject)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, denyAntonyms
* (refuse to accept) accept, take upSynonyms
* (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, aliendislike
English
Verb
(dislik)- customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike .