Word.ws English Dictionary

unliking

unliking is the present participle and gerund of unlike.

Meaning of unlike

Verb

unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)

  1. To dislike.
    • The incounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge, so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the ground to nourish or raise this plant, but the ill season also of the weather, by which it hath...1603, Francis Bacon, “Of the Interpretation of Nature”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, translation of original by Valerius Terminus, page 136
  2. (social media) To cancel a "like" action.
    • I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.
    1. (broadly, social media) To withdraw support or enjoyment for.
      • My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.2010 June 25, TheKorn, “Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet)

See all 11 meanings of unlike

Questions about unliking

What is unliking the present participle and gerund of?
Unliking is the present participle and gerund of unlike.

Words near unliking in the dictionary

  1. unlikeness
  2. unlikenesses
  3. unlikening
  4. unlikens
  5. unlikes
  6. unliking
  7. unlimb
  8. unlimbed
  9. unlimber
  10. unlimbered
  11. unlimbering

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unliking (page history and authors); unlike (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unliking.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unliking. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.