Dissimilar - English meaning

adjective

Mutually opposed or inconsistent.

Usage examples:

The two studies came to contradictory conclusions

noun

A contradictory proposition.

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He entitles this kind of opposition dialectical, and that of contradictories analytical.

adjective

If two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. are contradictory, they are very different from each other

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I keep getting contradictory advice - some people tell me to keep it warm and some tell me to put i…

adjective

Differing strikingly.

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A contrasting view

verb

Differ strikingly.

Usage examples:

His friend's success contrasted with his own failure

adjective

Very different

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The sudden changes at the political top have spawned two contrasting interpretations.

adjective

Not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality.

Usage examples:

You can play this game in different ways

adjective

Not the same

Usage examples:

Monet and other impressionists painted the same scene at different times of day to discover how the…

adjective

Used when you think someone or something is unusual or shows bad judgment

Usage examples:

What do i think of your purple shoes? well, they're certainly different.

adjective

Not the same as each other; dissimilar.

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Widely differing circumstances

verb

Be unlike or dissimilar.

Usage examples:

The second set of data differed from the first

verb

Present participle of differ

Usage examples:

The twins look alike, but they differ in temperament., his views differ considerably from those of …

adjective

Essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.

Usage examples:

They inhabit disparate worlds of thought

noun

Things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison.

Usage examples:

The second class of disparates have more to do with the particular foibles of the aperture involved.

adjective

Different in every way

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German newspapers have carried reports of sightings in such disparate places as switzerland, iran, …

adjective

Recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type.

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The patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing

adjective

Clearly separate and different

Usage examples:

The two languages are quite distinct from each other., the dogs are of distinct breeds., there’s a …

adjective

Clearly noticeable; that certainly exists

Usage examples:

There's a distinct smell of cigarettes in here.

adjective

Tending to be different or develop in different directions.

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Divergent interpretations

adjective

Different from each other

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A divergent approach/attitude, divergent interests/opinions/views

adjective

Different or becoming different from something else

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Widely divergent they hold widely divergent opinions on controversial issues like religion., in his…

adjective

Showing a great deal of variety; very different.

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Subjects as diverse as architecture, language teaching, and the physical sciences

adjective

Varied or different

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Lowell, massachusetts, is noted for its diverse ethnic communities, among them french-canadians, en…

adjective

Including many different types of people or things

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Students from countries as diverse as colombia and lithuania use cambridge textbooks., culturally d…

adjective

Diverse in character or content.

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A large and heterogeneous collection

adjective

Consisting of different parts or types

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With many ethnic groups represented, the student body is very heterogeneous.

adjective

Consisting of parts or things that are very different from each other

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Switzerland is a heterogeneous confederation of 26 self-governing cantons.

adjective

Not staying the same throughout.

Usage examples:

The quality of the material was often inconsistent

adjective

If a reason, idea, opinion, etc. is inconsistent, different parts of it do not agree, or it does not agree with something else

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Inconsistent with these findings are inconsistent with those of previous studies.

adjective

Not staying the same in behaviour or quality

Usage examples:

The teacher said that alex's schoolwork was very inconsistent., problems arise if the parents' appr…

verb

Match (people or things) unsuitably or incorrectly.

Usage examples:

Designers throw in big furniture pieces that are deliberately mismatched with the existing ones to …

adjective

Unsuitably or incorrectly matched.

Usage examples:

A pair of mismatched cops

adjective

(of two or more subjects) differing from each other; not similar.

Usage examples:

They are unalike in personality

adjective

People or things that are unalike are not similar to each other

Usage examples:

The political views of the two women could hardly be more unalike., at first sight, the two cities …

preposition

Different from; not similar to.

Usage examples:

A large house not unlike mr shah's

adjective

Dissimilar or different from each other.

Usage examples:

They seemed utterly unlike, despite being twins

verb

Be regarded with distaste or hostility; be unpopular.

Usage examples:

The article suggests that his character was unliked by many

adjective

Not related or linked.

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Unrelated facts

adjective

Not having a connection

Usage examples:

His answer was completely unrelated to my question.

noun

A form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard.

Usage examples:

Clinically distinct variants of malaria

determiner

More than one; several.

Usage examples:

Various people arrived late

adjective

Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts.

Usage examples:

Dresses of various colours

pronoun

More than one of several people or things.

Usage examples:

Various of her friends had called

adjective

Differing in size, amount, degree, or nature.

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Varying degrees of success

verb

Differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class.

Usage examples:

The properties vary in price

adjective

Changing or different in amount or level, especially from one occasion to another, or from one person or thing to another

Usage examples:

The technology is able to convert handwriting into digital text with varying degrees of success., t…