Definition/Meaning of unlike
- English - Adjective: unlike (comparative more unlike, superlative most unlike) Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike. The brothers are quite unlike each other. 1927, G. K. Chesterton, What I saw in America, page 45: 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…
- English - Preposition: unlike 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. 1999 December, Joe Oldham, “Design & Engineering Awards 2000”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 176, number 12, page 67: These drugs work unlike any medicine ever created. In contrast with; as opposed to. Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine,…
- English - Noun: unlike (plural unlikes) Something that is not like something else; something different. 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and ScienceIf the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes. unlike (plural unlikes) (Internet) The act of…
- English - Verb: unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked) To dislike . 2007, Marvin Kaye, The Fair Folk: Certainly nobody spoke to me, though plenty of them gave me an unliking look. 1862, The Scottish Congregational Magazine, page 247: We are not insensible of the fact that these principles ever will be unliked by the men of tho…
- English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English unlic , unlich , from Old English unlīċ , unġelīċ (“un like , 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). Etymology 2. From Middle English unliken , unlyken , equivalent to un- + like.