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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

... the whole organic and superorganic domains. The neglect of this fact leads to many socialistic fallacies. Combination is of the essence of organization, and organization is the great device for increased power by a number of unequal and dissimilar units brought into association for a common purpose. McGee[30] says of the desert of Papagueria, in southwestern Arizona, that "a large part of the plants and animals of the desert dwell together in harmony and mutual helpfulness [which he shows ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... largely influenced the plan of the university, this is perhaps as good a place as any to sketch its development. In the first place, I soon saw that the analogy between free education in the public schools and in the university is delusive, the conditions of the two being entirely dissimilar. In a republic like ours primary education of the voters is a practical necessity. No republic of real weight in the world, except Switzerland and the United States, has proved permanent; and the only difference between the many republics ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... Aunt Plenty was utterly dissimilar, being a stout, brisk old lady, with a sharp eye, a lively tongue, and a face like a winter-apple. Always trotting, chatting, and bustling, she was a regular Martha, cumbered with the cares of this world ...

— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott

... Wat Tyler looked at each other, a great giant of a man and an undersized bantam. Yet some electric spark of sympathy seemed to dart between them, these so dissimilar beings. ...

— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner

... very deceitful and very capricious, and depend more on fancy than reality. One person discovers a likeness between faces most dissimilar,—a likeness invisible to others. But who does Miss ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IV • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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