dissimilar
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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" [ant: {similar}]
2: not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
[syn: {unalike}, {dissimilar}] [ant: {alike(p)}, {like},
{similar}]
3: marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very unlike";
"people are profoundly different" [syn: {unlike},
{dissimilar}, {different}] [ant: {like}, {similar}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
This part very dissimilar to any other. --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissimilar":
antithetical, antonymous, assorted, at odds, at variance,
contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter,
departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated,
differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant,
discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissonant, distant,
distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, in disagreement,
inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible,
incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious,
irreconcilable, many, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd,
of different orders, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart,
poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several,
unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched,
unrelated, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied,
variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
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