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Word Meanings - DISLIKELIHOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to DISLIKELIHOOD)

  • SCOTTICIZE
    To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
  • IMPROBABILITY
    The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
  • LIKELIHOOD
    1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day Shak. 2. Likeness; resemblance. There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness
  • SCOTTISH
    Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
  • SCOTTISH TERRIER
    See TERRIER
  • SCOTTERING
    The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
  • SCOTTICISM
    An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
  • UNLIKELIHOOD
    Absence of likelihood.
  • DISLIKELIHOOD
    The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
  • MASCOT; MASCOTTE
    A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.

 

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