dissimilar
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- dissimilarly adverb
Etymology
Origin of dissimilar
Example Sentences
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The chapel’s four dissimilar facades—essentially interconnected white surfaces, ornamented and perforated with markedly different patterns of windows and doorways—are topped with a gray, curvaceous concrete roof.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Considering Red Bull had to build a powertrains factory from literally nothing in this period, and recruit an entirely new staff, their timeline is not that dissimilar from Honda's.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
The feeling isn’t dissimilar to trying to learn a new language, or even one that you were once semi-proficient in, that you haven’t studied with care in some time.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026
The scientific study produced an unexpected discovery which the team describe as "totally dissimilar to anything else we've uncovered".
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025
But the image of a baboon pulling a lever for food is not all that dissimilar from a person obsessively pecking at their phone waiting for the next email to appear.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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