different between disapprove vs mislike
disapprove
English
Etymology
dis- +? approve
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s??p?u?v/
Verb
disapprove (third-person singular simple present disapproves, present participle disapproving, simple past and past participle disapproved)
- (intransitive) To condemn; to consider wrong or inappropriate; used with of.
- She disapproves of rap music because of its sometimes aggressive lyrics.
- (transitive) To refuse to approve; reject.
- To have or express an unfavorable opinion. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Antonyms
- approve
Related terms
- disapprobation
- disapproval
Translations
Further reading
- disapprove in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- disapprove in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- disapprove at OneLook Dictionary Search
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mislike
English
Etymology
From Middle English misliken, from Old English misl?cian (“to displease, disquiet”); corresponding to mis- +? like. Cognate with Old High German missel?ch?n (“to displease”), Swedish misslika, Icelandic mislíka (“to dislike”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??sl??k/
Verb
mislike (third-person singular simple present mislikes, present participle misliking, simple past and past participle misliked)
- (archaic) To displease. [from 9th c.]
- 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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
- To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to. [from 13th c.]
- 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 […] .’
- I. Taylor
Derived terms
- misliker
Anagrams
- Mileski, milkies
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse mislíka
Verb
mislike (imperative mislik, present tense misliker, simple past mislikte, past participle mislikt, present participle mislikende)
- to dislike
References
- “mislike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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