Word Meanings - DISLIKEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. Spenser.

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• MALIGNITY
  1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• MALIGNANCE; MALIGNANCY
  Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever. 4. The state of being a malignant. Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence;
• MALIGNANTLY
  In a malignant manner.
• DISAFFECTED
  Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• MALIGNER
  One who maligns.
• MALIGN
  or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, 1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed
• DISAGREEABLE
  1. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall. 2. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or That which is disagreeable to one is
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• DISAFFECTION
  1. State of being disaffected; alienation 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.
• MALIGNIFY
  To make malign or malignant. "A strong faith malignified." Southey.
• DISLIKEN
  To make unlike; to disguise. Shak.
• DISLIKER
  One who dislikes or disrelishes.
• DISAFFECT
  1. To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon. 2. To disturb the functions of; to
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• MALIGNLY
  In a malign manner; with malignity.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• NONMALIGNANT
  Not malignant, as a disease.