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Definition: DISLIKING |
DISLIKINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dislike |
Date "DISLIKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Adjective: disliking; Verb: averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DISLIKING |
| English words defined with "DISLIKING": disapproval. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Displeasure; displease; displeasing; distaste; distasteful; rancor; disgust; bitter; unpleasant; dislike; disliking. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DISLIKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DISLIKING" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 49 | 48,677 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DISLIKING": tolstoy-disliking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DISLIKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 烦恶 (Disliked). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | nicht liebend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 忌諱 (displeasure, offense). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きい (displeasure, odd, offense, position of aircraft, strange, wonderful, your request, your will, your wishes), きき (brilliance, crisis, damage, demolishing, destroying, displeasure, dreadful, effective, effectiveness, efficacy, ghastly, machinery and tools, offense, the Kojiki and Nihonshoki, work). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 좋아하지 않". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | islikingday испытывать неприязнь к/ .нелюбовь. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DISLIKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delinking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DISLIKING" (pronounced di'slī"king) |
| 5 | -l ī" k i ng | liking. |
| 4 | -ī" k i ng | biking, hiking, spiking, striking, viking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-i-k-l-n-s" | |
-2 letters: disking, likings, sidling, silking, sliding. | |
-3 letters: diking, idling, isling, liking, siding, skiing. | |
-4 letters: dings, dinks, gilds, ginks, kilns, kinds, kings, lings, links, sigil, sling, slink. | |
-5 letters: digs, ding, dink, dins, disk, gids, gild, gink, gins, ilks, inks, kids, kiln, kind, king, kins, lids, ling, link, lins, nidi, nils, nisi, sign, sild, silk, sing, sink. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 4C 49 4B 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .-.. .. -.- .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01001100 01001001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S L I K I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 004C 0049 004B 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384353464345434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, китайский, китаец |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, немецкий |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, японский, японец |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japaner, japanisch, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, японский, японец |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, 영국, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Sounds 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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