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nonalike

nonalike adjective: not alike; unalike; dissimilar; different.

Adjective

nonalike (comparative more nonalike, superlative most nonalike)

  1. Not alike; unalike; dissimilar; different.
    • We have learned in 25 years that the choice of displacing in-out discretion is a tradeoff between allowing like cases to be treated in nonalike ways with high degrees of individual discretion, and a system that is excessively severe for many, if not most, of its cases.2001, Franklin Zimring, “The New Politics of Criminal Justice: Of "Three Strikes," Truth-in-Sentencing, and Megan's Laws”, in Perspectives on Crime and Justice: Lecture Series, page 19
    • It has been argued that such coalescence is a consequence of override, by the mating system, of the self-nonself somatic rejection reaction that is intrinsic between nonalike genotypes (Rayner et al., 1984).2013, K.C. Marshall, Advances in Microbial Ecology - Volume 10, page 130

Forms of nonalike

comparativemore nonalike
superlativemost nonalike

Origin of nonalike

From non- + alike.

Questions about nonalike

What does nonalike mean?
Nonalike means not alike; unalike; dissimilar; different.
What part of speech is nonalike?
Nonalike is an adjective.

Words near nonalike in the dictionary

  1. nonalignable
  2. nonaligned
  3. nonaligning
  4. nonalignment
  5. nonalignments
  6. nonalike
  7. nonalimentary
  8. nonalimony
  9. nonalingual
  10. nonaliphatic
  11. nonalive

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