different between enmity vs dislike

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French enemisté, ennemistié, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *inim?cit?s, *inim?cit?tem, from Latin inim?cus (“enemy”); cognates: French inimitié, Portuguese inimizade, Spanish enemistad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n.m?.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.m?.ti?/

Noun

enmity (countable and uncountable, plural enmities)

1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242e.

     Some later Muses from Ionia and Sicily reckoned it safest to weave together both versions and say that that which is is both many and one, held together by both enmity and amity.

2. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

   • I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways.

Quotations

Synonyms

Antonyms

• amity

Translations

References

• enmity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enmity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Notes:

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