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The internet's one-sided grudge button that never actually got invented.
means To have a negative reaction to something or someone — the plain feeling of not caring for a thing, long before any button existed to broadcast it.
from Straightforward English carpentry: the negative prefix 'dis-' (apart, not, opposite of) bolted onto 'like,' which itself traces back to Old English 'līcian,' meaning to please or be pleasing. So 'dislike' literally means 'to not be pleased by' — a word built the honest way, not borrowed from some exotic root, just English negating itself.
- youtube removed
- Public dislike counts hidden since 2021
- facebook refused
- Zuckerberg rejected a dislike button in 2015
- psychology term
- Mild aversion, weaker and vaguer than hatred
- etymology
- Simply like plus the negating prefix dis