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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dih-sim-uh-ler, dis-sim- |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɪm ə lər, dɪsˈsɪm- |
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Définition of dissimilar
Origin :- 1620s, from dis- + similar; perhaps on analogy of French dissimilaire. Related: Dissimilarity.
- adj not alike; not capable of comparison
- Answers not dissimilar have been given before by other artists in like case.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- In all these cases, the contiguousness of similar, or dissimilar growths, is not stated.
- Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
- He was behind a boulder, not too dissimilar to Calhoun's breastwork.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- I might have known two brothers could not have been so dissimilar in nature.
- Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
- What on earth can it be that two people so dissimilar as you and Strickland could aim at?
- Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
- Who ever heard of any antagonistic or even of dissimilar synonyms?
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- The position of words in a sentence is not dissimilar from that in English.
- Extract from : « The Maya Chronicles » by Various
- But these are among the slightest points in which the two poems are dissimilar.
- Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude
- (p. 179) Merrifield's eyes were blazing and his remarks were not dissimilar.
- Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.
- In mind and disposition they were as dissimilar as in their personal qualities.
- Extract from : « City Crimes » by Greenhorn
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