different between inconsistent vs unlike

English

Etymology

in- +? consistent

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nk?n?s?st?nt/

Adjective

inconsistent (comparative more inconsistent, superlative most inconsistent)

1. Not consistent:

   Antonym: consistent

   1. Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.

      His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.

   2. Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.

      He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.

      • 1862, The Christian Reformer (ed. Robert Aspland):

        He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.

   3. Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
      • 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:

        “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”

        “Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”

   4. (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.

Derived terms

• inconsistently

Related terms

• inconsistency

Translations

Anagrams

• nonscientist

Catalan

Etymology

in- +? consistent

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /i?.kon.sis?tent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i?.kun.sis?ten/

Adjective

inconsistent (masculine and feminine plural inconsistents)

1. inconsistent

   Antonym: consistent

Related terms

• inconsistència

Further reading

• “inconsistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inconsistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “inconsistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inconsistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

From French inconsistant

Adjective

inconsistent m or n (feminine singular inconsistent?, masculine plural inconsisten?i, feminine and neuter plural inconsistente)

1. inconsistent

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?la?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unl??, un?el?? (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungal?kaz; surface analysis: un- +? like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).

Adjective

unlike (comparative more unlike, superlative most unlike)

1. Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance.
2. Unequal.
3. (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.

Synonyms

• (not like): See also Thesaurus:different

Translations

Preposition

unlike

1. Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
2. In contrast with; as opposed to.
3. Not typical of one's character or personality.

Translations

Noun

unlike (plural unlikes)

1. Something that is not like something else; something different.
   • 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science

     If the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes.

Etymology 2

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- +? like.

Verb

unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)

1. To dislike.
2. (Internet) To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites.
   • 2009, Ben Zimmer, “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.

Noun

unlike (plural unlikes)

1. (Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.
   • 2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans (page 552)

     Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.

   • 2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling (page 13)

     On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]

Anagrams

• ukelin