-n. 3. disrelish, disfavor, disesteem, disaffection, displeasure, dissatisfaction; disinclination, distaste, disgust, repugnance, revulsion, repulsion, nausea; ill will, animosity, invidiousness, enmity, antagonism; aversion, antipathy, hostility, hatred, animus, detestation, loathing, odium, abomination, execration, abhorrence.
dislocate, v. 1. misarrange, put out of place, misplace, displace; derange, disarrange, disorder, throw into disorder, disorganize, turn topsy-turvy, disjoint, disarray; upset, mess or mess up, muss or muss up, disturb, discompose; dishevel, rumple, ruffle, tousle, Chiefly Scot. Dial, touse; clutter, scatter, litter, shuffle; jumble, muddle, entangle.
2. disarticulate, put out of joint, luxate; disconnect, unhinge, disengage.
dislocation, n. 1. misarrangement, misplacement, displacement; disarrangement, derangement, disorder, disorganization, disarray, irregularity; disturbance, disruption; upset, mess, Inf. muss, jumble.
2. disarticulation; luxation; disconnection, unhinging, disengagement.
dislodge, v. 1. displace, delocalize, dismount, Obs. displant, cut loose, knock loose, kick out, tear loose, extricate.
2. oust, expel, eject, evict, put out, turn out of doors; drive out, force or press out, extrude, thrust out; dispel, scatter, disperse; remove, dismiss, discharge, bump, fire, SI. sack; unseat, depose; expatriate, exile, banish, dispossess, deport.
disloyal, adj. unfaithful, faithless, untrue, false, false-hearted; two-faced, Janus-faced, double-tongued, deceitful, untrustworthy; apostate, traitorous, treasonable, treacherous, perfidious, recreant, renegade; heretical, schismatic, unorthodox, dissident, divergent.
disloyalty, n. unfaithfulness, faithlessness, infidelity, falseness, false-heartedness; apostasy, traitorousness, Iscariotism, treason, perfidy, recreancy; deceit, doubledealing, duplicity; disaffection, breach, estrangement.
dismal, adj. 1. gloomy, cheerless, melancholy, depressing, somber, morose; dark, black, grim, solemn, funereal, bleak, lugubrious; blue, joyless, sad, unhappy, doleful, sorrowful, dolorous; drab, dull, cold, chilly; barren, desolate, austere, empty; comfortless, uninviting, inhospitable, dreary, Literary, drear; miserable, woeful, wretched, woebegone, forlorn; dingy, murky, sunless, rayless, lightless, Cimmerian, tenebrous.
2. inept, unskilled, unhandy, undeft, undexterous; amateurish, incompetent, inexpert, inexperienced, untaught; bungling, blundering, butterfingered, Inf. all thumbs; maladroit, clumsy, lubberly, awkward, oafish.
dismantle, v. 1. strip, disfurnish, deprive of, remove from, disencumber.
2. take apart, take to pieces, disassemble, tear down, break down, raze, level, demolish, destroy, ruin, fell.
dismay, v. 1. dishearten, daunt, appall, terrify, horrify, frighten, affright, petrify, panic, scare, Archaic. amate; intimidate, cow, overawe, unman, unnerve, enervate, disconcert, abash, consternate; discourage, depress, deject, dispirit, sadden.
2. disillusion, disenchant, chagrin, shock, startle, surprise, take aback; alarm, perturb, disturb, unsettle, discompose, jar, jolt, upset, Inf. shake up.
-n. 3. disheartenment, consternation, terror, panic, horror, fear, funk, fright, affright, trepidation, Inf. cold feet; dread, apprehension, awe, intimidation; agitation, perturbation, alarm, anxiety, concern, fear and trembling.
4. disillusionment, disenchantment; mistrust, misgiving, qualm; scare, shock; chagrin, discouragement.