dislikes
dislikes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dislike.
dislikes is the plural of dislike.
Meaning of dislike
Verb
dislike (third-person singular simple present dislikes, present participle disliking, simple past and past participle disliked)
- To displease; to offend. In third-person only.
- customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike [translating desplaisent] me, as instruct me[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
- In the thick of the railway controversies of his day, Francis naturally had his prejudices. It seems that he cordially disliked the aristocracy in general.1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800
- To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
- Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.
Questions about dislikes
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dislikes (page history and authors); dislike (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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