dissimile

See also: dissimilé

English

Etymology

Latin dissimile, neuter dissimilis (“unlike”).

Noun

dissimile (countable and uncountable, plural dissimiles)

1. (rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Antonyms

• simile

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dissimile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• similised

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dissimilent, dissimiles

Verb

dissimile

1. inflection of dissimiler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dissimilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /disˈsi.mi.le/
• Rhymes: -imile
• Hyphenation: dis‧sì‧mi‧le

Adjective

dissimile (plural dissimili) [+ da (object)]

1. different (from)
2. dissimilar (to)

Derived terms

• dissimilmente

Further reading

• dissimile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Adjective

dissimile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dissimilis

Middle English

Verb

dissimile

1. Alternative form of dissimulen