dissimilar

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Old French des-bor.

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Latin dis-bor.

Middle English dis-

English dis-

English similar

English dissimilar

From dis- + similar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɪmɪlə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

dissimilar (comparative more dissimilar, superlative most dissimilar)

1. Not similar; unalike; different.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:different

Derived terms

• dissimilarity
• dissimilarly
• dissimilarness

Related terms

• dissimilation
• dissimilitude

Translations

not similar

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: башҡа (başqa)
• Belarusian: непадо́бны (njepadóbny), адро́зны (adrózny)
• Breton: disheñvel (br)
• Bulgarian: различен (bg) (različen), неприличащ (nepriličašt), несхо́ден (bg) (neshóden)
• Danish: ulig
• Dutch: ongelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: malsimila
• Finnish: erilainen (fi)
• French: dissemblable (fr), différent (fr)
• Galician: disimilar
• Georgian: უცხო (ucxo)
• German: ungleich (de)
• Greek: ανόμοιος (el) (anómoios)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνόμοιος (anómoios)

• Irish: éagsúil, difriúil
• Latin: dispār, dissimilis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ulik (no)

• Portuguese: dissimilar (pt)
• Russian: непохо́жий (ru) (nepoxóžij), несхо́дный (ru) (nesxódnyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj), несхо́жий (ru) (nesxóžij)
• Slovene: nepodoben m
• Spanish: desemejante (es), disímil (es)
• Swedish: olik (sv)
• Ukrainian: несхо́жий (nesxóžyj), неподі́бний (nepodíbnyj), відмі́нний (uk) (vidmínnyj)

Noun

dissimilar (plural dissimilars)

1. That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else.

   Antonym: similar

   • 2012, Kathleen Lennon, Margaret Whitford, Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, page 35:

     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 […]

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.si.miˈlaʁ/ [d͡ʒi.si.miˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.si.miˈlaʁ/ [d͡ʒi.si.miˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.si.miˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.si.miˈlaʁ/ [d͡ʒi.si.miˈlaχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.si.miˈlaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.si.miˈlaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.si.miˈlaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.si.miˈla.ɾi/

Adjective

dissimilar m or f (plural dissimilares)

1. dissimilar (not similar)

Further reading

• “dissimilar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “dissimilar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026