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Dissimilar

adjective

Not similar. "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"

Not alike or similar. Synonym: unalike.

Marked by dissimilarity. Synonyms: different, unlike. "People are profoundly different"

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"Dissimilar" Quotes from Famous Books

... pipes.—Two tubular sandstone pipes were recovered from the cave. They are dissimilar in size, and, in ...

— A Burial Cave in Baja California - The Palmer Collection, 1887 • William C. Massey

... his travelling-carriage, with physician and suite: Claire had visited Byron in the hope that he might help her to employment at Drury Lane Theatre, and, instead of going on the stage, had become his mistress. Thus united, but strangely dissimilar, the two parties converged on the Lake of Geneva, where the poets met for the first time. Shelley, though jarred by Byron's worldliness and pride, was impressed by his creative power, and the days they spent sailing on the lake, and wandering in a region haunted by the spirit ...

— Shelley • Sydney Waterlow

... disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your indulgent reception of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion. ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) • John Marshall

... was both ardent and just; he could swiftly recognise the nobler elements in characters which at first glance might seem startlingly dissimilar; and he could pass without apparent effort from study of the lives of men of action to the inward ...

— Sonnets • Nizam-ud-din-Ahmad, (Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur)

... Miss Walbrook had been conducting this debate a dissimilar yet parallel scene was enacted in a mean house in a mean street on the other side of the Park. Viewed from the outside, the house was one of those survivals of more primitive times which you will still run across in the richest as well as in the poorest districts of New York. ...

— The Dust Flower • Basil King

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