dissimilar
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3.8
- adjective
- /dɪˈsɪmɪlər/
:
diferente
- Although they are sisters, their personalities are quite dissimilar, with one being very outgoing and the other shy.
- similar and dissimilar
- too dissimilar
- structurally dissimilar
And we are most dissimilar in color vision, OK?
- And we are most dissimilar in color vision, OK?
- OK, so, you know, very dissimilar ideas.
- Beyond that, I don't think that you could have found two more dissimilar looking people if you'd tried.
- The substantial majority say that they were grossly dissimilar.
- However, it is dissimilar in that our civilian counterparts probably get paid much better than we do.
- The second is is that they could argue that regardless of scope, their their product is dissimilar enough that it does not infringe upon the patent.
- Depends if you have enough dissimilar metals by the classics, you might be familiar with her copper and zinc.
- This is not so dissimilar in that sense.
- And so he starts going around asking for venture funding not dissimilar to Android.
- And so it creates, in a way, a time stamp that's not dissimilar to the Bitcoin blockchain.
- We are really just fundamentally this dissimilar relative to our similarity with dogs.
- I you know, I think the structures are actually not that dissimilar.
- It sounds not dissimilar from the kind of things that Rob Belt talks about.
- And how this causes strand breaks in our DNA not too dissimilar from being irradiated.
- So it's not, it wasn't in a dissimilar position to what we have here in the in the US right now.
Examples
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Rules for healthy eating during Ramadan are not dissimilar to the rules of healthy eating at other times.
Academic text (2012) -
There are two men utterly dissimilar in occupation and probably in education and personal wealth.
Fiction book (1992) -
And we are most dissimilar in color vision, OK?
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OK, so, you know, very dissimilar ideas.
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And it's not that dissimilar from that of Earth.
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This is not dissimilar to air power either.
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Believe it or not, you two offer not dissimilar services.
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We're not that dissimilar, are we?
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I think we actually - look very dissimilar.
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Educational problems in the tropics are real, serious, and not dissimilar to problems at stateside schools.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not the same as another person or thing
245
1.0
Completely different in nature or direction
168
3.5
Clearly different from others
37
7.9
Different in type so they cannot be easily compared
7
4.6
Easy to see or recognize as different from others
4
3.7
Clearly different from one another in a way you notice
1
4.2
Not the same as each other
Different from another person or thing in important ways
Not exactly the same in one or more ways
Different in color or style when seen together
Antonyms
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dissimilar comes from the parts dis- meaning 'not' and similar meaning 'like'. So dissimilar means 'not like' or different from something, the opposite of similar.