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Definition of Dissimilar
1. Adjective. Not similar. "Took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"
2. Adjective. Not alike or similar. "As unalike as two people could be"
Attributes: Alikeness, Likeness, Similitude
Derivative terms: Dissimilarity
Antonyms: Alike
3. Adjective. Marked by dissimilarity. "People are profoundly different"
Derivative terms: Differ, Difference, Dissimilarity, Unlikeness
Antonyms: Like
Definition of Dissimilar
1. a. Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
Definition of Dissimilar
1. Adjective. Not similar; unlike; different ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dissimilar
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissimilar
Literary usage of Dissimilar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of John C. Calhoun: Presenting a Condensed History of Political Events by John Caldwell Calhoun, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1843)
"Each has, thus, its appropriate object, but objects in their nature very dissimilar ;
so much so, that, in case of an association or union, where the powers ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"Dissimilar Reciprocal Crosses. — It has been observed in many cases that the two
... XBJ and BJ X AS are dissimilar. In the current Heft of the Jenaische ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the character of prose, the strophes being dissimilar and the verses of unequal
length, of different structure, and without rhyme or regular rhythm. ..."
4. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"... circumstances dissimilar.— Third: may the legislature forbid discrimination
where circumstances are dissimilar. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Relevant evidence not inadmissible because indirectly proving or tending to prove
another crime—Dissimilar crimes united in motives. ..."
6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Discrimination forbidden though circumstances dissimilar.—Third: may the legislature
forbid discrimination where circumstances are dissimilar? ..."
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