different between dislike vs mislike

English

Etymology

From dis- +? like.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?la?k/, /?d?sla?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

dislike (plural dislikes)

1. An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
2. (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).

   Tell me your likes and dislikes.

3. (Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.

Translations

Verb

dislike (third-person singular simple present dislikes, present participle disliking, simple past and past participle disliked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.) [16th-19th c.]
2. (transitive) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. [from 16th c.]
3. (Internet) To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Synonyms

• mislike
• hate
• disrecommend

Antonyms

• like

Translations

See also

• abhor
• despise
• detest
• hate
• loathe

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)

1. (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 [...].

2. 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 […] .’

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)

1. to dislike

References

• “mislike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.