DISLIKE


Meaning of DISLIKE in English

I.

noun

1 feeling of not liking sb/sth

ADJECTIVE

▪ deep , extreme , great , intense , real , strong , violent , visceral

Several committee members expressed their intense ~ of the chairman.

▪ growing

▪ general

Consumers show a general ~ for genetically modified food products.

▪ obvious

▪ immediate , instant

▪ instinctive

▪ active

She threw him a look of active ~.

▪ personal

▪ mutual

In spite of their mutual ~ and hostility, they often worked together.

VERB + DISLIKE

▪ feel , harbour/harbor ( esp. BrE ), have

She felt ~ rather than sympathy as he told his story.

My father has a great ~ of long hair on boys.

▪ express , show

▪ develop

Her husband developed a strong ~ for the dog.

PREPOSITION

▪ with ~

Sonia stared at me with ~ and distrust.

▪ ~ for

She had a deep ~ for Robert's wife.

▪ ~ of

their ~ of central government

PHRASES

▪ a feeling of ~ , a look of ~

▪ take a ~ to sb

I took an instant ~ to my new colleague.

2 sth you do not like

PHRASES

▪ sb's likes and ~s

I've told you all my likes and ~s.

II.

verb

ADVERB

▪ cordially , greatly , heartily , intensely , really , strongly

She ~d her boss intensely.

▪ particularly

▪ simply

He simply ~d working with committees and avoided it whenever possible.

▪ instinctively

▪ actively

There are very few foods that I actively ~.

PHRASES

▪ be generally ~d , be universally ~d , be widely ~d

The new teacher was universally ~d.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .