lician

to please

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A young woman recoils with a displeased grimace from a small plate of olives, pushing it away with her fingertips.

noun / verb

dislike

dis-LYKE/dɪsˈlaɪk/

A feeling of not liking someone or something.

Etymology

disEnglishnot, apart, or undoing

+likeOld Englishto please

Dis- turns liking into aversion. The base originally meant “to please,” so the older perspective was that something pleased a person, rather than that the person liked the thing.

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