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dissimilars

dissimilars is the plural of dissimilar.

Meaning of dissimilar

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

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Questions about dissimilars

What is dissimilars the plural of?
Dissimilars is the plural of dissimilar.

Words near dissimilars in the dictionary

  1. dissimilar
  2. dissimilarities
  3. dissimilarity
  4. dissimilarly
  5. dissimilarness
  6. dissimilars
  7. dissimilate
  8. dissimilated
  9. dissimilates
  10. dissimilating
  11. dissimilation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissimilars (page history and authors); dissimilar (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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