dislike
Roget category 867
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.3. Prospective affections
#867.
Dislike
noun
dislike,
distaste,
disrelish,
disinclination,
displacency†.
reluctance —
backwardness
etc.
(unwillingness)
603.
repugnance,
disgust,
queasiness,
turn,
nausea,
loathing —
averseness†,
aversation†,
aversion —
abomination,
antipathy,
abhorrence,
horror —
mortal antipathy,
rooted antipathy,
mortal horror,
rooted horror —
hatred,
detestation —
hate
etc.
898 —
animosity
etc.
900 —
hydrophobia —
canine madness —
byssa†,
xenophobia.
sickener† —
gall and wormwood
etc.
(unsavory)
395 —
shuddering,
cold sweat.
verb
mislike misrelish†,
dislike,
disrelish —
mind,
object to —
have rather not,
would rather not,
prefer not to,
not care for —
have a dislike for,
conceive a dislike to,
entertain a dislike for,
take a dislike to,
have an aversion to,
have an aversion for —
have no taste for,
have no stomach for.
shun,
avoid
etc.
623 —
eschew —
withdraw from,
shrink from,
recoil from —
not be able to bear,
not be able to abide,
not be able to endure —
shrug the shoulders at,
shudder at,
turn up the nose at,
look askance at —
make a mouth,
make a wry face,
make a grimace —
make faces.
loathe,
nauseate,
abominate,
detest,
abhor —
hate
etc.
898 —
take amiss
etc.
900 —
have enough of
etc.
(be satiated)
869.
wish away,
unwish cause dislike,
excite dislike —
disincline,
repel,
sicken —
make sick,
render sick —
turn one's stomach,
nauseate,
wamble†,
disgust,
shock,
stink in the nostrils —
go against the grain,
go against the stomach —
stick in the throat —
make one's blood run cold
etc.
(give pain)
830 —
pall.
adjective
disliking
etc.
v. —
averse from,
loathe,
loathe to,
loth,
adverse —
shy of,
sick of,
out of conceit with —
disinclined —
heartsick,
dogsick† —
queasy.
disliked
etc.
v. —
uncared for,
unpopular —
out of favor —
repulsive,
repugnant,
repellant —
abhorrent,
insufferable,
fulsome,
nauseous —
loathsome,
loathful† —
offensive —
disgusting
etc.
v. —
disagreeable c.
(painful)
830.
adverb
usque ad nauseam [Lat.].
interjection
faugh!,
foh! †,
ugh!,
phrase
non libet [Lat.].
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