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Definition of Dislikable
1. Adjective. Such as to provoke dislike.
Definition of Dislikable
1. Adjective. Not capable or worthy of being liked; not liked; regarded with displeasure or aversion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dislikable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dislikable
Literary usage of Dislikable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of General William Booth: The Founder of the Salvation Army by Harold Begbie (1920)
"... in his youth it was an interruption of his spiritual life, a disagreeable,
dislikable employment, but not a thing of loathing or disgust. ..."
2. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"One dislikes to see a man and poet reduced to proclaim on the streets such
tidings : but on the whole, as matters go, that is not the most dislikable. ..."
3. The Sunny South, Or, The Southerner at Home: Embracing Five Years by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1860)
"... filled with blue-coated, black-eyed Spanish officers, as polite as French
dancing-masters in bodily gesticulations, but looking very dislikable and ..."
4. Other Sheep: A Missionary Companion to "Twice-born Men" by Harold Begbie (1912)
"One man is noble and kingly, like a Roman Emperor or an English judge; another
is as Mongolian as a Chinaman; a third as hook-nosed, crafty, and dislikable ..."
5. The Jungle Folk of Africa by Robert H. Milligan (1908)
"The only dislikable part of the journey was rising so early in the morning when
we could have slept on for hours, after the walk of the preceding day. ..."
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