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What's The Definition Of Dislike?

\Dis*like"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disliked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disliking}.] 1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. --Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. ``Disliking countenance.'' --Marston. ``It dislikes me.'' --Shak.
\Dis*like"\, n. 1. A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness. God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. --Hammond. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike. --Hannah More. We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. --J. Morley. His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. --A. W. Ward. 2. Discord; dissension. [Obs.] --Fairfax. Syn: Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. -- {Dislike}, {Aversion}, {Reluctance}, {Repugnance}, {Disgust}, {Antipathy}. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason.