dissimile

See also: dissimilé

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dissimilent, dissimiles

Verb

dissimile

1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimiler
2. third-person singular present indicative of dissimiler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dissimiler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dissimiler
5. second-person singular imperative of dissimiler

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Italian

Adjective

(da)

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

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) dissimile

1. nominative neuter singular of dissimilis
2. accusative neuter singular of dissimilis
3. vocative neuter singular of dissimilis