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dissimilar in English:

1. similar


The important point to note is that both parties offered similar solutions to this problem.
If you take a close look, you'll find that your friends and you have similar personalities.
NASA says three of 22 space missions that carried generators similar to Galileo's ended in accidents.
similar to
When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness.
As far as restaurants, canteens, cafeterias or similar things are concerned, "feedback" may be the wrong word.
Saxophonists often double on flutes, which have similar fingerings to their primary instruments.
Our engineers compared this information with similar products being sold in Japan and concluded that they might compete very well.
We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.
It's possible that the drinking water has chlorine, lead, or similar contaminants in it.
Pepperberg hoped that a similar system would help Alex grasp the meaning of words, not just their sounds.
A display, aka monitor, is an appliance that displays video signal of still images and moving pictures produced by a computer or similar device.
As a similar feature it is noted that students engaged in fund-raising activities rarely contribute money they have earned themselves.
Something which is similar to something else has many things the same, although it is not exactly the same.

English word "dissimilar"(similar) occurs in sets:

postive negative adjective
postive negative adjective1

2. not the same



3. different


You look different.
I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.
Jo's very different from her sister, isn't she? The house is different to how I expected it to be. I had to go to three different shops to find the book she wanted.
It's difficult to give an objective definition of terrorism, as it is practically different in every country.
Our teacher also said that her wedding wouldn't be the same as other people's; we asked how it would be different, but she didn't say.
Here ... the sound of the cicadas is different. "Oh my, I'm impressed you noticed. You've got a good sense of pitch!"
Using English with him, I feel that we are both at different levels, at least from a linguistic point of view.
The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
That's not what I mean. Sex discrimination, female discrimination, whatever, men and women are just different.
I preferred wearing my Hawaiian T-shirt and green shorts to be cool and different, but I quickly got used to the white shirt and black slacks.
I'm teaching basic participial constructions now, but, with regard to those below, what different ways of translating them would everybody use?
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
These two have completely different patterning but no difference is seen in their internal morphology so it seems that they are considered the same.

English word "dissimilar"(different) occurs in sets:

The interview, TV criticism