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disliking

disliking is the gerund of dislike.

disliking is the present participle and gerund of dislike.

Meaning of dislike

Noun

dislike (plural dislikes)

  1. An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
    • In deference to Queen Victoria's dislike of high speed, the specials were allowed about 75 min. for the journey on the Deeside line, but after her death, they were slightly accelerated.1957 February, H. A. Vallance, “The Deeside Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 96
  2. (plural-normally) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
    • Tell me your likes and dislikes.
  3. (Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.

See all 6 meanings of dislike

Forms of disliking

pluraldislikings

Origin of disliking

From dislike + -ing.

Questions about disliking

What is disliking the gerund of?
Disliking is the gerund of dislike.

Words near disliking in the dictionary

  1. disliker
  2. dislikers
  3. dislikes
  4. dislikest
  5. disliketh
  6. disliking
  7. dislikings
  8. dislimb
  9. dislimbed
  10. dislimbing
  11. dislimbs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disliking (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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