Dissimilar
[dɪ'sɪmɪlə] or [dɪ'sɪmɪlɚ]
Definition
(adj.) not similar; 'a group of very dissimilar people'; 'a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm'; 'their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own'; 'took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem' .
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Definition
(a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unlike, different, heterogeneous, diverse, various.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SIMILAR]
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Definition
adj. not similar: unlike in any respect: of different sorts.—ns. Dissimilar′ity Dissimil′itude unlikeness: want of resemblance.—adv. Dissim′ilarly.—ns. Dissimilā′tion the act of rendering dissimilar; Dissim′ile the opposite of a simile a comparison by contrast.
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Examples
- They are utterly dissimilar in all respects. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- If two dissimilar metals could be decomposed and power at the same time produced they contended that practical work might be done with the force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Their very faces are not dissimilar--a pair of human falcons--and dry, direct, decided both. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? Plato. The Republic.
- Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own last year, last month, last week? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They were very dissimilar. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It should be observed that the process of imitation probably never commenced between forms widely dissimilar in colour. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There never were two people more dissimilar. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The very dissimilar Norwegian and Swedish peoples were bound together under one king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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