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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section II. Personal Affections |
| 3. Prospective Affections |
| 867. Dislike. |
| NOUN: | DISLIKE, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency [rare]. reluctance; backwardness (unwillingness) [See Unwillingness]. REPUGNANCE, disgust, queasiness, nausea, loathing, loathfulness [rare], aversion, averseness, aversation [obs.], abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal -, rooted- -antipathy, - horror; hatred, detestation; hate [See Hate]; animosity [See Resentment]. hydrophobia, canine madness; xenophobia, batophobia (nervousness) [See Fear]; Anglophobia, Germanophobia, Slavophobia &c. sickener; gall and wormwood (unsavory) [See Unsavoriness]; shuddering, cold sweat. |
| VERB: | DISLIKE, mislike, disrelish; mind, object to; would rather not, not care for; have -, conceive -, entertain -, take- -a dislike, - an aversion- to; have no -taste, - stomach- for; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a -mouth, - wry face, - grimace; make faces. shun, avoid [See Avoidance]; eschew; withdraw -, shrink -, recoil - from; not be able to -bear, - abide, - endure. LOATHE, nauseate, wamble [obs. or dial. Eng.], abominate, detest, abhor; hate [See Hate]; take amiss [See Resentment]; have enough of &c. (be satiated) [See Satiety]. CAUSE DISLIKE, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one’s stomach, nauseate, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the -grain, - stomach; stick in the throat; make one’s blood run cold &c. (give pain) [See Painfulness]; pall. |
| ADJECTIVE: | DISLIKING &c. v.; averse to, loath or loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy. DISLIKED &c. v.; uncared for, unpopular, out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellent; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous, loathsome, loathful [rare], offensive; disgusting &c. v.; disagreeable (painful) [See Painfulness]. UNEATABLE, inedible, inesculent [rare], unappetizing, unsavory. |
| ADVERB: | TO SATIETY, to one’s disgust; usque ad nauseam [L.]. |
| INTERJECTION: | faugh! foh! ugh! |
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