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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
This part very dissimilar to any other --Boyle.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}] [ant: {alike(p)}]
3: not like marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very
unlike"; "people are profoundly different" [syn: {unlike},
{different}] [ant: {like}]
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