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DISSIMILAR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not alike or similar
Example:
as unalike as two people could be
Synonyms:
dissimilar; unalike
Classified under:
Attribute:
alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)
Derivation:
dissimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not similar
Example:
took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem
Classified under:
Attribute:
similarity (the quality of being similar)
Antonym:
similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)
Derivation:
dissimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)
Context examples:
While the U. mongoliensis seeds are dissimilar to those of any other living or extinct plant, preliminary comparisons connect them with the seed-bearing structures of two groups of extinct plants that may be part of the ginkgo lineage.
(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)
It was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Their minds most dissimilar!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The new face, too, was like a new picture introduced to the gallery of memory; and it was dissimilar to all the others hanging there: firstly, because it was masculine; and, secondly, because it was dark, strong, and stern.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
There never were two people more dissimilar.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mrs Clay, who had been present while all this passed, now thought it advisable to leave the room, and Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims to theirs, but her sense of personal respect to her father prevented her.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And when farther pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
