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English Dictionary: Dissimilar by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Dissimilar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dissimilar
adj
  1. 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"
    Antonym(s): similar
  2. not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
    Synonym(s): unalike, dissimilar
    Antonym(s): alike(p), like, similar
  3. marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different"
    Synonym(s): unlike, dissimilar, different
    Antonym(s): like, similar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dissimilar \Dis*sim"i*lar\, a. [Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F.
      dissimilaire.]
      Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men
      are as dissimilar as their features.
  
               This part very dissimilar to any other.   --Boyle.
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