unliked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of unlike.

   After the argument, she quietly unliked his most recent photo.

   The page had been unliked by thousands of users overnight.

   Note

   The verb behind this form carries two quite different meanings. It can mean to dislike, or to cancel a "like" on a post, which broadens to withdrawing support for anything. One spelling serves both the simple past (she unliked the photo) and the participle after have or be (it had been unliked). The surrounding context, not the form, tells you whether a reversal or plain dislike is meant.

2. 2
   adjective

   Not liked by others; lacking approval or popularity.

   Like the dish at a potluck that everyone leaves untouched and goes home full.

   The unliked manager struggled to win any cooperation from his staff.

   His proposal remained deeply unliked despite repeated revisions.

   Similarunpopular

   Oppositeliked, popular, well-liked

   Note

   The prefix un- negates liked here, so the word names a state rather than an action. It can take an agent with by, as in something unliked by you, and it compares like any adjective: more unliked, most unliked. Do not confuse it with the past tense of unlike, which is spelled the same but comes from the verb. There, someone has actively disliked a thing or taken back a like.

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