Dissimilar

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissimilar \Dis*sim"i*lar\, a. [Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F.
     dissimilaire.]
     Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men
     are as dissimilar as their features.
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           This part very dissimilar to any other.  --Boyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissimilar
       adj 1: 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" [ant: {similar}]
       2: not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
          [syn: {unalike}] [ant: {alike(p)}]
       3: not like; marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very
          unlike"; "people are profoundly different" [syn: {unlike},
           {different}] [ant: {like}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissimilar":
     antithetical, antonymous, assorted, at odds, at variance,
     contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter,
     departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated,
     differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant,
     discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissonant, distant,
     distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
     diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, in disagreement,
     inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible,
     incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious,
     irreconcilable, many, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd,
     of different orders, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart,
     poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several,
     unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched,
     unrelated, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied,
     variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart