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Unfamiliar vs Unlike - What's the difference?

unfamiliar | unlike |

As adjectives the difference between unfamiliar and unlike

is that unfamiliar is strange, not familiar while unlike is not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.

As a noun unfamiliar

is an unfamiliar person; a stranger.

As a preposition unlike is

differently from; not in a like or similar manner.

As a verb unlike is

to dislike.

unfamiliar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Strange, not familiar.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unfamiliar person; a stranger.
  • unlike

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) unlic, unlich, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.
  • The brothers are quite unlike each other.
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  • Unequal.
  • They contributed in unlike amounts.
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  • (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
  • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
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  • In contrast with.
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  • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (unlik)
  • To dislike.
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  • To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites
  • I unliked the video link after I realized it was making fun of me.
  • * 2009 , , “ On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
  • Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like'' button. Toggling off the button results in ''unliking''''' your previously ''liked'' item. Note that this is different from ''disliking'' something, since '''''unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
  • * 2010 June 25, "TheKorn" (username), " Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet :
  • My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking " stern pinball entirely.