DISLIKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disliked mean? 

• DISLIKED (adjective)
  The adjective DISLIKED has 1 sense:

1. regarded with aversion

  Familiarity information: DISLIKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISLIKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regarded with aversion

Context example:

he was intensely disliked

Similar:

dislikable (such as to provoke dislike)

unlikable; unlikeable (difficult or impossible to like)

Antonym:

liked (found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

She disliked Bath, and did not think it agreed with her; and Bath was to be her home.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He feared and disliked the beating he knew to be waiting for him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I disliked Mr. Brocklehurst; and I was not alone in the feeling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And yet I was conscious of a slight shock or hurt in that she was able to do the thing I had begged her to do and which she had notably disliked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the intrusion of other matters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After the second day, recovered from seasickness, the full passenger list was in evidence, and the more he saw of the passengers the more he disliked them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They disliked her, but had been taught to be kind to her, simply because she was old and poor and had few friends.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They disliked me; and they sullenly, sternly, steadily, overlooked me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh, my dear Lizzy! pray apologise for my having disliked him so much before.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)