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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

Thesaurus Results for dissimilar:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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