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Definition: Dissimilar |
DissimilarAdjective1. 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". 2. Not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be". 3. Not like; marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dissimilar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Dissimilar \Dis*sim"i*lar\, adjective. [Prefix dis- similar: compare to the French expression dissimilaire.]. (references) |
Synonyms: DissimilarSynonyms: different (adj), unalike (adj), unlike (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: alike(p) (adj), like (adj), similar (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difference | Adjective: differing; Verb: different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform; daedal. |
Dissimilarity | Adjective: dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind; (class) unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented; original. |
Multiformity | Adjective: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dissimilar |
| English words defined with "dissimilar": analogous, anisogametic, anisogamic, anisogamous ♦ correspondent, Counterview, crossbreed ♦ Difform, disassortative mating, disparate, dissimilarity, Dissimilarly, dissimilate, diverse, dominant, double, dual ♦ heterozygous, hybrid ♦ Incompatible terms, Inconcinne, Isogonism ♦ Mesocarp ♦ thermojunction, threefold, treble, twofold ♦ unsimilarity ♦ various, voltaic battery, voltaic pile. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dissimilar": Animals, Outbred Strains ♦ Commodore 65 ♦ DRY-WALL APPLICATOR, dry-wall nailer, duo-trio test ♦ echogram, Electrochemical Cell ♦ galvanic corrosion, gateway node, Gibson's method ♦ mail gateway ♦ normal corrosion ♦ OVERLOCK-MACHINE OPERATOR, COMPLETE GARMENT ♦ Seebeck effect, sheetrock installer, SLEEVE SETTER, LOCKSTITCH, SLEEVE SETTER, OVERLOCK ♦ TCP-IP, thermal convertor, thermal electromotive force, thermoelectric couple, thermo-junction, triangle test, tribocouple. (references) |
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 | F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, arrived in Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco, in support of exercise African Eagle. African Eagle is a biannual exercise designed to practice dissimilar air to air training with t. |  | A Crew Chief from the 555th Fighter Squadron, Aviano Air Base, Italy, marshals F-16 fighter planes deployed to Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco, in support of African Eagle exercise. African Eagle is a bi-annual exercise designed to practice dissimilar air. |
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George Eliot | A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fate abruptly brought together, and wedded with its resistless power, these two shattered lives, dissimilar in years, but similar in sorrow |
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Health | Patients with stress urinary incontinence are quite dissimilar from those with uninhibited contractions and unstable bladders. (references) | |
Indeed, overwhelming evidence exists to support the concept that the skin is damaged in many different ways by its direct exposure to natural or artificial UVR. Some exposure is virtually unavoidable over a lifetime and is dramatically dissimilar in different populations depending upon climate, geography, occupation, and recreational activities. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | Plastics production machinery and resins imports have experienced a dissimilar growth. (references) |
Sweden | The challenges facing Sweden today are not dissimilar to our own economy - concern about the continuing supply of skilled labor, the need to integrate a sizable immigrant population into the workforce, and rising social costs. (references) | |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Nor can I forget as an encouragement to it your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion. |
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| "Dissimilar" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dissimilar" is used about 280 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 280 | 17,458 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dissimilar": dissimilar tastes. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "dissimilar": dissimilar-looking, dissimilar-two. | |
Ending with "dissimilar": not-dissimilar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dissimilar metal | 11 |
dissimilar and metal and corrosion | 3 |
dissimilar metal welding | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "dissimilar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pangjashëm (different, disparate, diverse, matchless, unlike, unlikely), i ndryshëm (alias, another, assorted, different, disparate, distinct, divergent, diverse, new, other, otherwise, sundry, unlike, variant, various). (various references) | |
Arabic | متفاوت (different, disparate, irregular, mixed, uneven), متباين (various), مختلف (contradictory, contrastive, different, discrepant, disparate, distinct, diverse, diversified, several, sundry, unlike, variant, various), غير متشابه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | различен (another, different, discrepant, distinct, divergent, diverse, diversified, other, otherwise, removed, several, variant, varied), несходен (uncongenial), нееднакъв (patchy, unequal, uneven). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不相似. (various references) | |
Czech | rozdílný (different, distinct, divergent, diverse, unlike, unmatched), odlišný (different, discrepant, distinct, divergent, unlike, variant), nestejnorodý. (various references) | |
Danish | uensartet sprøjtning (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray), uensartet net (dissimilar network), heterogen sprøjtning (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray), forskelligt signal (dissimilar signal), forskelligt net (dissimilar network), anvendelse af ulige vilkaar for ydelser af samme vaerdi over for handelspartnere (to apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties). (various references) | |
Dutch | ongelijk signaal (dissimilar signal), ongelijk netwerk (dissimilar network), heterogeen spuitpatroon (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray), het ten opzichte van handelspartners toepassen van ongelijke voorwaarden bij gelijkwaardige prestaties (to apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties). (various references) | |
Farsi | مختلف (Disparate, Diverse, Off, Several, Variant, Various), ناجور (Away, Cockeyed, Disparate, Dissonant, Heterogeneous, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inconsistent, Incorrect, Inept, Misfit, Piebald, Sorry, Uneven), غیرمشابه , دگرگون (Vicissitudinous), بی شباهت (Anomalous, Unlike). (various references) | |
Finnish | erinäköinen (unlike), erilainen (different, diverse, varied, various), erilaatuinen (heterogeneous). (various references) | |
French | dissemblable, différent (different, diverse). (various references) | |
German | unähnlich (dissimilarly, unalike, unanalogous, unlike). (various references) | |
Greek | ανόμοιοσ (disparate, unlike), αταίριαστοσ (incongruous, jarring, nonesuch, odd). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שו " (another, different, diverse, unequal, unlike, variant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | eltérő (collar, differing, disparate, dissident, distinct). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tidak sama (different). (various references) | |
Italian | dissimile (unlike), disparato (different, disparate, ill-matched). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 異機種 (dissimilar equipment, heterogenous equipment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いきしゅ (dissimilar equipment, heterogenous equipment). (various references) | |
Korean | 닮지 않". (various references) | |
Manx | anchasley (alien, different, distinct, distinctive, diverse, variant, varied). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ulik (different). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | issimilarday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | diferente (another, different, disparate, distinct, diverse, else, other, otherwise, unlike, variant, varied, various), dessemelhante. (various references) | |
Romanian | diferit (alien, different, differently, distinct, divers, diverse, manifold, medley, otherwise, several, sundry, unlike, varied, various), deosebit (apart, choice, different, differently, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverse, especial, excellent, extra, in a class by itself, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, profoundly, remarkable, separate, singular, special, specific, strange, sundry, uncommon, unlike, unusual, variant, varied), neasemãnãtor (unlike), eterogen (different, heterogeneal, heterogeneous, inconsistent, medley, mixed, promiscuous). (various references) | |
Russian | разнородный (heterogeneous, hybrid, mixed). (various references) | |
Scottish | neo-choltach (improbable, unlikely), ao-coltach (improbable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | različit (different, disparate, divers, several, unalike, various). (various references) | |
Spanish | distinto (different, distinct, diverse, new, separate, several, varied), disímil. (various references) | |
Swedish | olika (different, differently, diverse, several, unequal, uneven, variant, various). (various references) | |
Turkish | farklı (a far cry, a far cry from, another, different, discrete, disparate, distinct, divergent, diverse, divided, hetero-, incompatible, incongruous, otherwise, unlike, variant, varied), benzemez (unlike), ayrı (aloof, another, apart, aside, detachedly, discontinuous, discrete, distanced, distinct, divergent, divided, especial, hetero-, isolated, segregate, separate, unconnected). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | різнорідний (medley, mixed, motley, promiscuous), несхожий (another, different, discrepant, distinct, unlike). (various references) | |
Welsh | annhebyg (unlike). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dissimile, dissimilis, inconveniens. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dissimilar": dissimilarities, dissimilarity, dissimilarly, dissimilars. (additional references) | |
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"Dissimilar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disimilar, dissimilars, dissimilis, Dissimulare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dissimilar" (pronounced di'ssi"muler or di'si"muler) |
| 6 | -s i" m u l er | similar. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Buckler, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dangler, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, gobbler, granular, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, juggler, jugular, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rattler, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, settler, shuffler, Sidler, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, testicular, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrangler, wrestler. |
| 6 | -s i" m u l er | similar. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, angular, annular, avuncular, bachelor, binocular, Buckler, Candler, cardiovascular, cellular, chancellor, circular, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, curricular, dangler, equiangular, extracurricular, fiddler, gastrovascular, Girdler, glandular, globular, gobbler, granular, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, intercellular, intermolecular, irregular, jeweler, jocular, juggler, jugular, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, molecular, muscular, needler, nestler, nodular, particular, peninsular, perpendicular, popular, rattler, rectangular, regular, reveler, saddler, secular, semicircular, settler, shuffler, Sidler, simpler, singular, spectacular, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, testicular, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular, unspectacular, vascular, vehicular, vernacular, wrangler, wrestler. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-i-l-m-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: misdials. | |
-3 letters: disarms, dismals, midairs, miladis, misdial, mislaid, missaid, sialids, similar. | |
-4 letters: disarm, dismal, drails, iliads, lairds, liards, lidars, midair, miladi, missal, sadism, salmis, sialid, simars. | |
-5 letters: amids, amirs, amiss, arils, arsis, dials, dirls, drail, drams, iliad, imids, irids, laird, lairs, lards, laris, liard, liars, lidar, limas, liras, maids, mails, mairs, marls, midis, milia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-i-l-m-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: dissimilars. | |
+2 letters: dissimilarly. | |
+3 letters: dissimilarity, dissimilatory, industrialism. | |
+4 letters: industrialisms. | |
+5 letters: antiradicalisms, dissimilarities, traditionalisms. | |
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