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Unlikeable

Definition: Unlikeable

Unlikeable

Adjective

1. (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings; "all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic".

2. Difficult or impossible to like; "a disagreeable and unlikable old woman".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Unlikeable

Synonyms: unappealing (adj), unlikable (adj), unsympathetic (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: sympathetic (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Unlikeable

"Unlikeable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlikeable" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unlikeable

Language Translations for "unlikeable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

αντιπαθητικόσ (antipathetical, detestable, objectionable, unprepossessing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ikeableunlay

   

Portuguese

  

antipático (antipathetic, antipathetical, nasty, uncongenial, unlovable, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

poco parecido, antipático (antipathetic, antipathetical, disagreeable, nasty, rejecting, repulsive, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsympathetic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sevimsiz (angular, beastly, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, uncongenial, ungracious, unlikable, unlovable, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsympathetic), nahoş (disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, graceless, grating, repellent, repelling, unlikable, unpleasant), itici (impulsive, projectile, propellent, propelling, propulsive, pusher, pushing, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unlikable, unlovely, unprepossessing), hoşa gitmeyen (displeasing, offending, undesirable, unlikable), hoş olmayan (disagreeable, objectionable, ungracious, unlikable, unpalatable, unpleasant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unlikeable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-k-l-l-n-u"

-1 letter: unlikable.

-2 letters: balkline, beanlike, blueline, lienable, likeable, lineable, linkable.

-3 letters: likable, linable, nebulae, unalike.

-4 letters: alible, alkene, alkine, bailee, baleen, beanie, belike, bullae, enable, labile, liable, lienal, lineal, nebula, nebule, nellie, nubile, unable, unlike.

-5 letters: abele, akene, alien, alike, aline, allee, anele, anile, ankle, baulk, belie, belle, binal, blain, blank, bleak, blink, bulla, elain, ileal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unlikeable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6C 69 6B 65 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#108 &#105 &#107 &#101 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006C 0069 006B 0065 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55807875777167687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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