DISSIMILAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissimilar mean? 

• DISSIMILAR (adjective)
  The adjective DISSIMILAR has 2 senses:

1. not similar

2. not alike or similar

  Familiarity information: DISSIMILAR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSIMILAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not similar

Context example:

took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem

Attribute:

similarity (the quality of being similar)

Antonym:

similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)

Derivation:

dissimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not alike or similar

Synonyms:

dissimilar; unalike

Context example:

as unalike as two people could be

Attribute:

alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

Derivation:

dissimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)

 Context examples 

The quality of being unlike or dissimilar.

(Difference, NCI Thesaurus)

They are utterly dissimilar in all respects.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dalcetrapib is structurally dissimilar from other CETP inhibitors, including torcetrapib, and raises functional HDL by a different mechanism.

(Dalcetrapib, NCI Thesaurus)

"Wax is a polymer, a sort of 'natural plastic,' and has a chemical structure not dissimilar to polyethylene," Bertocchini says.

(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)

A technique to form a single hybrid cell, by fusion of two or more dissimilar cells, either spontaneously or by induced fusion.

(Cell Fusion, NCI Thesaurus)

Heterodimerization involves a biophysical interaction between two dissimilar biological molecules or subunits, such as between two proteins.

(Heterodimerization, NCI Thesaurus)

Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

PDGF has dissimilar A and B subunits.

(Platelet Derived Growth Factor Beta Chain, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical treatment in which hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are transferred from one genetically dissimilar individual to another.

(Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)

The attraction between dissimilar exposed charges on two or more molecules.

(Electrostatic Attraction, NCI Thesaurus)