mislike
Meanings
Plural: mislikes
Verb
- To disapprove of or dislike (someone or something); to have an aversion to.
- To displease or offend (someone).
- To displease or offend.
- To disapprove; also, to be displeased or unhappy.
- To become sickly or weak due to poor health; to waste away.
Noun
- Aversion or distaste for something; dislike; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.
- Lack of comfort; discomfort; also, difficulty; trouble; or sadness; unhappiness.
- The characteristic or state of incapacity, physical distress, or weakness due to poor health; sickliness; (countable) an instance of this.
- Discontent, unrest; (countable) an instance of this.
Adj
- Not like or similar; different, unlike.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English misliken (“to displease, offend; to disturb mentally, peturb; to dislike, find distasteful; to be unpleasant; to be displeased, dissatisfied, or unhappy; to feel sorry for (someone’s misfortune); of fruit or a tree: to fail to flourish”) [and other forms], from Old English mislīcian (“to displease; to disquiet”), from mis- (prefix meaning ‘bad; badly; wrong; wrongly’, or indicating a failure or lack) + līcian (“to like; to appeal to, please”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“like, similar; even, level”)). The English word is analysable as mis- + like.
Cognates
* Middle Dutch mislīken
* Middle Low German mislīken
* Old High German misselīchēn (“to displease”) (Middle High German misselīchen)
* Old Norse mislíka (Icelandic mislíka (“to dislike”))
* Old Swedish mislika (modern Swedish misslika)
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
mislike is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmislike is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mislike is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary