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What is the adjective for unlikable?

What's the adjective for unlikable? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs unliken and unlike which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

unlike
unlikely
  1. Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
  2. Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “It is certainly unlikely that they will be giving their task their undivided attention, or that they will regard it as either challenging or interesting.”
      “I smiled sincerely, to encourage him to buy this unlikely story.”
unliked
unlikeable
  1. Alternative spelling of unlikable
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is very difficult to write a book about essentially unlikeable characters but she manages to pull it off.”
      “The characters are unlikeable at the beginning, and, after they experience some minor plot-developments, they're still unlikeable at the end.”
      “The entire show is predicated on Mandy's naked contempt for the relentlessly unlikeable Billy.”
unlikable
  1. Not likable
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And I know it's a hard call, because most sit-com characters are unlikable, unredeeming, shallow and one-dimensional.”
      “Frankie and Johnny was deep-sixed by an unlikable heroine and a rather boring screenplay.”
      “Here, playing a priest who has lost his faith, he comes off as amateurish and unlikable, a second rate character that is not very funny.”
unlikelier
unlikeliest
  1. superlative form of unlikely: most unlikely
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Enjoy the exploits of this irrepressible orphan, as she discovers the bonds of family, friendship and love in the unlikeliest of places.”
      “But the lessons of the past couple of months have shown us that we have to be ready to deal with every kind of risk, even the unlikeliest ones.”
      “All that changed, though, in the 43rd minute when a Monterrey goal materialised from the unlikeliest of sources.”
unlikened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of unliken
unlikening
  1. present participle of unliken
unliking
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