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Unlike

//ʌnˈlaɪk// adj, noun, prep, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike.

    "The brothers are quite unlike each other."

  2. 2
    Unequal.

    "They contributed in unlike amounts."

  3. 3
    Not likely; improbable; unlikely. archaic
Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by dissimilarity wordnet
  2. 2
    not equal in amount wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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 Science If 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."

  2. 2
    The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media. Internet

    "Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over."

Preposition
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    In contrast with; as opposed to.

    "Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home."

  3. 3
    Not typical of one's character or personality.

    "Being late is unlike him."

Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    To cancel a "like" action.

    "I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist."

  3. 3
    To cancel a "like" action.; To withdraw support or enjoyment for. broadly

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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).

Etymology 3

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).

Etymology 4

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.

Etymology 5

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.

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