Unliken vs Unlikes - What's the difference?
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(unlike)
Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.
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Unequal.
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(archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
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In contrast with.
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To dislike.
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To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites
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As verbs the difference between unliken and unlikes
is that unliken is to make unlike; to dissimilate while unlikes is third-person singular of unlike.unlikes
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Verb
(head)unlike
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) unlic, unlich, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The brothers are quite unlike each other.
- They contributed in unlike amounts.
Preposition
(English prepositions)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(unlik)- I unliked the video link after I realized it was making fun of me.
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.
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.
