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Definition: Disliked |
DislikedAdjective1. Regarded with aversion; "he was intensely disliked". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disliked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Antonym: liked (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Disliked; Verb: uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting; Verb: disagreeable c. (painful). |
Hate | Bitter; (acrimonious) implacable; (revengeful). unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned, uncared for, unendeared, un-valued; disliked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disliked |
| English words defined with "disliked": all the same ♦ bitch ♦ even so ♦ farewell ♦ grading ♦ however ♦ isolation ♦ leave, leave-taking ♦ nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding ♦ Out of favor, overfamiliar ♦ parting ♦ scoring, still ♦ thinness ♦ withal ♦ yet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disliked": Diable ♦ Hungarian Notation ♦ Lotus Development Corporation ♦ Mugwump Press ♦ Squirrel. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Widely disliked for their venomous, painful stings, fire ants have spread across much of the southern United States. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
J. August Strindberg | I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. |
Richard H. Dana | Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. |
Sydney Smith | Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Leaning back is a way of lying down standing which is not disliked by dreamers |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | All levels of the judiciary often make rulings disliked by the Government. (references) |
Minorities | Eritrea | Members of Jehovah's Witnesses generally are disliked and face some societal discrimination because of their refusal to participate in the independence referendum in 1993 and to perform national service, a refusal that is seen widely as unpatriotic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disliked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.60% of the time. "Disliked" is used about 566 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 (past tense) | 77.6% | 440 | 13,128 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 19.58% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.82% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 566 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "disliked": make oneself disliked. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "disliked": much-disliked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
celebrity disliked most | 4 |
disliked | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disliked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 烦恶 (Disliking). (various references) | |
German | konnte nicht leiden, abgelehnt (declined, deprecated, disowned, spurned). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mindenki meg fog utálni (you'll get yourself disliked). (various references) | |
Italian | malvisto (unpopular). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アンザス条約 (Ancien Regime, andante, andante cantabile, andantino, angelus, antagonism, anthology, anti-, anti-establishment, antique, antique fashion, ANZUS Treaty, submarine pitch, under, under par, undercoat, underground, underhand throw, underline, underpass, underplot, underproof, underscore, undershirt, underskill, underwear, undulation, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, UNTAC, untied loan, untouchable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アンチ (anti-). (various references) | |
Korean | 좋아하지 않았다. (various references) | |
Manx | leodit (derogated, diminished, disrespected, reduced). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | islikedday.(various references) | |
Turkish | kendini sevdirmemek (make oneself disliked), antipatikleşmek (make oneself disliked). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Disliked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delinked, dialike, dieselised, disklike, dislik, Disllokey, gislaved, isjlike, isslike, misliked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disliked" (pronounced di'slī"kt) |
| 4 | -l ī" k t | liked. |
| 3 | -ī" k t | biked, hiked, psyched, spiked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-k-l-s" | |
-1 letter: dislike, kiddies. | |
-2 letters: didies, disked, kiddie, sidled, silked. | |
-3 letters: deils, delis, didie, diked, dikes, idled, idles, isled, liked, likes, sided, sidle, skied, slide. | |
-4 letters: deil, deli, dels, desk, died, diel, dies, dike, disk, elds, elks, ides, idle, ilks, isle, kids, leis, leks, lids, lied, lies, like, side, sike, sild, silk, skid, sled, slid. | |
-5 letters: del. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-i-k-l-s" | |
+3 letters: fiddlestick. | |
+4 letters: fiddlesticks. | |
+5 letters: tiddledywinks. | |
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