unlikeability
Hard to appreciate
Unlikeability is the quality of being difficult to like—something off-putting about a person or character that prevents warmth or sympathy.
The term appears often in discussions of fiction, where an unlikeable protagonist challenges readers: The novel works despite—or because of—the narrator's unlikeability.
In real life, someone's unlikeability might stem from arrogance, coldness, or simply poor social skills.
Intense physical aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- aversionIntense dislike or repugnance
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
- repulsionDisgust or pushing-away force
distaste · antipathy · contempt · disdain · hostility · resentment · animosity · dislike
Extremely disagreeable in manner
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
- abrasiveRough enough to erode
- insufferableImpossible to put up with
- off-puttingCausing mild aversion
narcissistic · boorish · cantankerous · churlish · disagreeable · grating · haughty · irksome
Banishment from a group
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- avoidanceDeliberate keeping away
alienation · isolation · cold-shoulder · snubbing · blackballing · unpopularity · banishment · spurning
Unfavorable opinion expressed
- criticismJudgment of faults
- disfavorLack of approval
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
displeasure · objection · denunciation · derision · scorn · reproach · rebuke · opprobrium
disgust
Intense physical aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- aversionIntense dislike or repugnance
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
repulsion · distaste · antipathy · contempt · disdain · hostility · resentment · animosity · dislike · abhorrence
obnoxious
Extremely disagreeable in manner
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
- abrasiveRough enough to erode
- insufferableImpossible to put up with
off-putting · narcissistic · boorish · cantankerous · churlish · disagreeable · grating · haughty · irksome · caustic
ostracism
Banishment from a group
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
avoidance · alienation · isolation · cold-shoulder · snubbing · blackballing · unpopularity · banishment · spurning · boycott
disapproval
Unfavorable opinion expressed
condemnation · displeasure · objection · denunciation · derision · scorn · reproach · rebuke · opprobrium
unlikeabilitylikeability
Quality of being pleasant
likability · likableness · likeableness · lovability · endearingness
unlikeabilitycharm
Attractive personal quality
charisma · magnetism · appeal · attractiveness · allure
unlikeabilitymagnetism
Force between poles
allure · personal appeal · popularity · adorability · enchantment
like, likely, unlike, unlikely, likeness, likelihood, likable, likeable, unliked