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English
Etymology
From dis- + similar.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dissimilar (comparative more dissimilar, superlative most dissimilar)
- Not similar; unalike; different.
Synonyms
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Translations
not similar
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bashkir: башҡа (başqa)
- Belarusian: непадо́бны (njepadóbny), адро́зны (adrózny)
- Breton: disheñvel (br)
- Bulgarian: различен (bg) (različen), неприличащ (nepriličašt), несхо́ден (bg) (neshóden)
- Danish: ulig
- Dutch: ongelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: malsimila
- Finnish: erilainen (fi)
- French: dissemblable (fr), différent (fr)
- Galician: disimilar
- Georgian: უცხო (ucxo)
- German: ungleich (de)
- Greek: ανόμοιος (el) (anómoios)
- Ancient: ἀνόμοιος (anómoios)
- Irish: éagsúil, difriúil
- Latin: dispār, dissimilis
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ulik (no)
- Portuguese: dissimilar (pt)
- Russian: непохо́жий (ru) (nepoxóžij), несхо́дный (ru) (nesxódnyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj), несхо́жий (ru) (nesxóžij)
- Slovene: nepodoben m
- Spanish: desemejante (es), disímil (es)
- Swedish: olik (sv)
- Ukrainian: несхо́жий (nesxóžyj), неподі́бний (nepodíbnyj), відмі́нний (uk) (vidmínnyj)
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Noun
dissimilar (plural dissimilars)
- That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else.
- Antonym: similar
2012, Kathleen Lennon, Margaret Whitford, Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, page 35:Whether or not the primary function of a good metaphor is the appreciation of the similarity of dissimilars, the naturalist philosopher, reacting to Platonic transcendence, insists that […]
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
dissimilar m or f (plural dissimilares)
- dissimilar (not similar)