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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. not similar;
- Example: "a group of very dissimilar people"
- Example: "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"
- Example: "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"
- Example: "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"

2. not alike or similar;
- Example: "as unalike as two people could be"
[syn: unalike, dissimilar]

3. marked by dissimilarity;
- Example: "for twins they are very unlike"
- Example: "people are profoundly different"
[syn: unlike, dissimilar, different]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dissimilar \Dis*sim"i*lar\, a. [Pref. dis- + similar: cf. F.
   dissimilaire.]
   Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men
   are as dissimilar as their features.
   [1913 Webster]

         This part very dissimilar to any other.  --Boyle.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dissimilar
    adj 1: not similar; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump
           not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their
           understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our
           own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the
           problem" [ant: similar]
    2: not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
       [syn: unalike, dissimilar] [ant: alike(p), like,
       similar]
    3: marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very unlike";
       "people are profoundly different" [syn: unlike,
       dissimilar, different] [ant: like, similar]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

78 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissimilar":
   antithetical, antonymous, assorted, at odds, at variance,
   contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter,
   departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated,
   differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant,
   discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissonant, distant,
   distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
   diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, in disagreement,
   inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible,
   incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious,
   irreconcilable, many, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd,
   of different orders, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart,
   poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several,
   unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched,
   unrelated, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied,
   variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart