unlike
preposition
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Pronunciation: /ʌnˈlaɪk/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).
- Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike.
“The brothers are quite unlike each other.”
“It may be conjectured with some confidence that it is very unlike what is called the Wild and sometimes the Woolly West, which I did not see.”
- Unequal.
“They contributed in unlike amounts.”
“The earth is unlike the wire in size, resistance, and carrying capacity. Hence, telephone service calk for two wires of equal size, resistance, and carrying capacity.”
- Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.
- The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.
“Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.”
“On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]”
prep
Etymology: From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).
- Different from; not in a like or similar manner.
“The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before.”
“Hal kept pace beside her in his ambling, arm-swinging way. He walked unlike other men she knew, like someone who had never carried a briefcase.”
- In contrast with; as opposed to.
“Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home.”
“Canadians can not bring a "national" piece of litigation, unlike what can be done in the United States.”
- Not typical of one's character or personality.
“Being late is unlike him.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.
- To dislike.
“The incounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge, so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the ground to nourish or raise this plant, but the ill season also of the weather, by which it hath been checked and blasted.”
“We are not insensible of the fact that these principles ever will be unliked by the men of tho world”
- To cancel a "like" action.
“I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.”
“Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.”
- To cancel a "like" action.
“My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.”