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To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson.

Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] Spenser.

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] Shak.

Unlikeness. [R.] Locke.

One who dislikes or disrelishes.

To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall. Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law. Milton.

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike. Macaulay.

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy. Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy. Shak.

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

A turning from with dislike; aversion. [Obs.or Archaic] Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

avor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing. We are heartily agreed in our detestation of civil war. Burke.

To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

nation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.