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dissimilar

UK/dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/

dissimilar adjective: not similar; unalike; different.

Adjective

dissimilar (comparative more dissimilar, superlative 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.2025 April 8, Julia Carrie Wong, “Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2025

Noun

dissimilar (plural 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 […]2012, Kathleen Lennon, Margaret Whitford, Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, page 35
    Antonyms:
    similar

dissimilar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

dissimilar in Hindi

dissimilar
असम asam, अतुल्य atulya

dissimilar in Tamil

ஒத்தராத, ஒத்திராத, மாறுபட்ட, வேறுபட்ட, வேறுபாடான, வடிவொப்பில்லாத

dissimilar in Urdu

مختلف

dissimilar in Malayalam

unalike, different, differing
അസമമായ, വിജാതീയ, വ്യത്യാസപ്പെട്ട, വേറിട്ട, ന്യൂനാധിക, ഏറ്റക്കുറച്ചിലുള്ള
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dissimilar in Kannada
ಹೋಲಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ಹೋಲದ, ಸಾಮ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲದ

Examples of dissimilar in a sentence

  • The output of the XOR gate is logic 1 or high, when its inputs are dissimilar.
  • Mammalian teeth are characteristically heterodont, i.e. teeth are dissimilar in shape and size.
  • These perplexingly dissimilar objects found their way into her work at different stages in her artistic development.

All 18 example sentences with dissimilar

Antonyms of dissimilar

Forms of dissimilar

Adjective
comparativemore dissimilar
superlativemost dissimilar
Noun
pluraldissimilars

Origin of dissimilar

From dis- + similar.

Words formed from dissimilar

Questions about dissimilar

What does dissimilar mean?
Dissimilar means not similar; unalike; different.
What is dissimilar in Hindi?
Dissimilar in Hindi is असम (asam), अतुल्य (atulya). See Dissimilar meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dissimilar?
Dissimilar can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce dissimilar?
Dissimilar is pronounced /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/ (UK).

Words near dissimilar in the dictionary

  1. dissights
  2. dissilience
  3. dissiliency
  4. dissilient
  5. dissilition
  6. dissimilar
  7. dissimilarities
  8. dissimilarity
  9. dissimilarly
  10. dissimilarness
  11. dissimilars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dissimilar (page history and authors); अतुल्य (Hindi) (page history and authors); dissimilar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissimilar (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissimilar (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dissimilar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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