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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
akin, aligned, alike, analogical, answering, coequal, coextending, coextensive, collatable, collateral, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, complemental, complementary, concurrent, consonant, convertible, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, duplicate, equal, equidistant, equipollent, equispaced, equivalent, even, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, lined up, matchable, matching, much at one, nonconvergent, nondivergent, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, parallel, parallelepipedal, parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic, parallelogrammic, parallelotropic, reciprocal, reciprocative, relative, similar, tantamount, twin, undifferentiated, uniform
Dictionary Results for analogous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
analogous
    adj 1: similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise
           dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered
           analogous"; "salmon roe is marketed as analogous to
           caviar" [syn: analogous, correspondent]
    2: corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin;
       "the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous"
       [ant: heterologic, heterological, heterologous,
       homologous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Analogous \A*nal"o*gous\, a. [L. analogous, Gr. ? according to a
   due ratio, proportionate; ? + ? ratio, proportion. See
   Logic.]
   Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some
   resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
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         Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. --De Quincey.
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         Decay of public spirit, which may be considered
         analogous to natural death.              --J. H.
                                                  Newman.
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   nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which
      becomes positively electrified when heated.
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   Syn: Correspondent; similar; like.
        [1913 Webster] -- A*nal"o gous*ly, adv. --
        A*nal"o*gous*ness, n.
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