Definitions

have no stomach for

VERB

chicken out

Synonyms

WEAK

avoid back down back out back pedal beg off blow it off bow out cancel cop out funk out get cold feet give up give way go back on make concessions pull out recant renege resign scratch shy from surrender throw in the towel turn yellow weasel out wiggle out wimp out withdraw worm out yield

VERB

dislike

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abhor avoid condemn deplore despise detest disapprove loathe regret resent scorn shun

STRONG

abominate contemn disesteem disfavor eschew execrate mind

WEAK

antipathize be allergic to be averse to be turned off to bear malice toward disrelish grossed out on have hard feelings have no taste for look down on lose interest in make faces at not appreciate not care for not endure not feel like not take kindly to object to shudder at

Antonyms

STRONGEST

admire adore approve be happy cherish face like love meet

VERB

mislike

Synonyms

WEAK

abhor abominate antipathize avoid be allergic to be averse to be turned off to bear malice toward condemn contemn deplore despise detest disapprove disesteem disfavor disrelish eschew execrate grossed out on have hard feelings have no taste for have no use for loathe look down on lose interest in make faces at mind not appreciate not care for not endure not feel like not take kindly to object to regret resent scorn shudder at shun

Example Sentences

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He knows I have no stomach for violence and I know he loses patience with some of the intricately plotted films that I like.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2021

What they have no stomach for is inaction, endless churn and threats from abroad.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2017

"I have no appetite for sitting in a room and watching 150 power point slides, filled with corporate mediocrity and corporate politics - I have no stomach for that at all," he said.

From Reuters • Nov. 26, 2012

“The problem with America is that we just have no stomach for competition,” he once admiringly recalled a Japanese executive telling him.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2012

He would later say, quoting Henry Austin Dobson, that “fame is a food that dead men eat /1 have no stomach for such meat.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

have no stomach for

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