adj
Meaning 1
Not similar; unalike; different.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dissimilar
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S IH1 M AH0 L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: similar
adjective
Meaning 3
marked by dissimilarity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- for twins they are very unlike
- people are profoundly different
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unlike, different
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
not alike or similar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- as unalike as two people could be
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unalike
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
not similar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: similar
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English similar English dissimilar From dis- + similar.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: башҡа (başqa) — not similar
- Belarusian: непадо́бны (njepadóbny) — not similar
- Belarusian: адро́зны (adrózny) — not similar
- Breton: disheñvel — not similar
- Bulgarian: различен (različen) — not similar
- Bulgarian: неприличащ (nepriličašt) — not similar
- Bulgarian: несхо́ден (neshóden) — not similar
- Danish: ulig — not similar
- Dutch: ongelijk — not similar
- Esperanto: malsimila — not similar
- Finnish: erilainen — not similar
- French: dissemblable — not similar
- French: différent — not similar
- Galician: disimilar — not similar
- Georgian: უცხო (ucxo) — not similar
- German: ungleich — not similar
- Greek: ανόμοιος (anómoios) — not similar
- Ancient Greek: ἀνόμοιος (anómoios) — not similar
- Irish: éagsúil — not similar
- Irish: difriúil — not similar
- Latin: dispār — not similar
- Latin: dissimilis — not similar
- Norwegian Bokmål: ulik — not similar
- Portuguese: dissimilar — not similar
- Russian: непохо́жий (nepoxóžij) — not similar
- Russian: несхо́дный (nesxódnyj) — not similar
- Russian: отли́чный (otlíčnyj) — not similar
- Russian: несхо́жий (nesxóžij) — not similar
- Slovene: nepodoben — not similar
- Spanish: desemejante — not similar
- Spanish: disímil — not similar
- Swedish: olik — not similar
- Ukrainian: несхо́жий (nesxóžyj) — not similar
- Ukrainian: неподі́бний (nepodíbnyj) — not similar
- Ukrainian: відмі́нний (vidmínnyj) — not similar