Antonyms for dissimilar


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-sim-uh-ler, dis-sim-
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɪm ə lər, dɪsˈsɪm-


Definition of dissimilar

Origin :
  • 1620s, from dis- + similar; perhaps on analogy of French dissimilaire. Related: Dissimilarity.
  • adj not alike; not capable of comparison
Example sentences :
  • Answers not dissimilar have been given before by other artists in like case.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • In all these cases, the contiguousness of similar, or dissimilar growths, is not stated.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • He was behind a boulder, not too dissimilar to Calhoun's breastwork.
  • Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
  • I might have known two brothers could not have been so dissimilar in nature.
  • Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
  • What on earth can it be that two people so dissimilar as you and Strickland could aim at?
  • Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Who ever heard of any antagonistic or even of dissimilar synonyms?
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • The position of words in a sentence is not dissimilar from that in English.
  • Extract from : « The Maya Chronicles » by Various
  • But these are among the slightest points in which the two poems are dissimilar.
  • Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude
  • (p. 179) Merrifield's eyes were blazing and his remarks were not dissimilar.
  • Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.
  • In mind and disposition they were as dissimilar as in their personal qualities.
  • Extract from : « City Crimes » by Greenhorn

Synonyms for dissimilar

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