dissimilar
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- dissimilarly adverb
Etymology
Origin of dissimilar
Example Sentences
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Matt: It’s not dissimilar, in some ways, to the Mike-Will stuff.
From Los Angeles Times
The scientific study produced an unexpected discovery which the team describe as "totally dissimilar to anything else we've uncovered".
From BBC
Downstairs in the exhibition galleries is his related sculpture of a folding card-table and four metal chairs, rendered in not dissimilar Brobdingnagian proportions.
From Los Angeles Times
Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.
From Los Angeles Times
That as humans, we are more alike than we are dissimilar.
From Los Angeles Times
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