simular

American  

[sim-yuh-ler] / ˈsɪm yə lər /

noun

1. a person or thing that simulates; pretender.

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adjective

1. simulated; false; counterfeit.

2. imitative; simulative.

simular British  

/ ˈsɪmjʊlə /

noun

1. a person or thing that simulates or imitates; sham

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adjective

1. fake; simulated

Other Word Forms

• nonsimular noun
• unsimular adjective

Etymology

Origin of simular

1520–30; < Latin simul ( āre ) to simulate + -ar ², -ar ¹

Example Sentences

They revolve on their axes, simular to the world, from east to west, and have already reached the shores of the Pacifick oshun.

From Project Gutenberg

If mi memory serves me right, the moshun ov the velosipead iz purely a crank moshun, simular tew the grind stun, and iz produced the same way, that the scizzor grinder stirs up his masheen.

From Project Gutenberg

And passing through the same wood with a Whitehaven dandy of sixty, now in Hades, who happened to wear a beautiful wig from which on account of the heat he had removed his hat, we saw with these eyes of ours one of those same thickets which heretofore had been concerned in our own caning, deliberately lift up, suspend, and keep dangling in the air for the contempt of the public that auburn wig which was presumed by its wearer to be simular of native curls.

From Project Gutenberg

His eye-lids, soon, sleep, falling as a dew, Closed fast, death’s simular, in sight the same.

From Project Gutenberg

As in the old poetic fame The gods are blind and lame, And the simular despite Betrays the more abounding might, So call not waste that barren cone Above the floral zone, Where forests starve: It is pure use;— What sheaves like those which here we glean and bind Of a celestial Ceres and the Muse?

From Project Gutenberg