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dissimilar

  • /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/ UK

adjective more dissimilar · most dissimilar

  1. Not similar; unalike; different. By Saad’s accounting – and this is not dissimilar from the white nationalist “great replacement theory” – western societies are bringing about their own destruction by admitting immigrants from poorer, browner and more Muslim countries.

noun dissimilars

  1. That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else. 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 […]

    Opposite: similar

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Closest in meaning: unlike, unalike, different, disparate, uneven, individual, nonsense, unequal, differing, separate, diverging, difference, divergent, distinct, various, heterogeneous

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adj not similar

Españoldesemejante, disímil
Portuguêsdissimilar
Françaisdissemblable, différent
Deutschungleich
Ελληνικάανόμοιος anómoios
Русскийнепохо́жий nepoxóžij, несхо́дный nesxódnyj, отли́чный otlíčnyj, несхо́жий nesxóžij

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@misc{dissimilar_2026,
  title = {dissimilar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dissimilar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}