'Dissimilar' definitions:
Definition of 'dissimilar'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be" [syn: unalike, dissimilar] [ant: alike(p), like, similar]
adjective
Definition of 'Dissimilar'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- This part very dissimilar to any other. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dissimilar'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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