unlike

Forms

1.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.
2.Unequal.
- Thus two objects of unlike size but equal weights are judged to differ in weight, the smaller being the heavier (size-weight illusion).
- 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.

1.Different from; not in a like or similar manner.
- These drugs work unlike any medicine ever created.
- The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before.
- She goes to preschool, plays with dolls, and she loves to draw and paint. But Marla paints unlike any other four-year-old in the world.
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.
- Canadians can not bring a "national" piece of litigation, unlike what can be done in the United States.
- But unlike many other tunnels that lay idle and decaying, Catesby has now found a new use as an aerodynamic wind tunnel for the motor industry.
3.Not typical of one's character or personality.
- Being late is unlike him.

1.To dislike.
- Certainly nobody spoke to me, though plenty of them gave me an unliking look.
2.To cancel a "like" action.
- I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.
- 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.

Uncommon· #2879

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).