Other forms: disliked, dislikes, disliking
To dislike somebody or something is not to enjoy them at all. Milder than hate, and firmer than not minding.
It is a plain and rather formal verb, since English speakers usually say they do not like something instead. It works as a noun too, and taking a dislike to somebody means deciding against them, often for no good reason. The internet gave it a new life with the dislike button. Its opposite is like, and its stronger neighbours are loathe, detest and hate.
Proto-Indo-European
*leyg- — image; likeness; similarity
Proto-Germanic
*līkāną
Proto-West Germanic
*līkēn
Old English
līcian — to like, to please
Middle English
liken
English
like
English, today
dislike
From dis + like. like Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic līkēn, from Proto-Germanic līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”). Cognate with stq liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), West Frisian lykje (“to seem, appear, look”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic - and Faroese líka (“to like”). Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA