Dissimilar and Like

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Dissimilar

Dissimilar adjective - Being not of the same kind.
Usage example: a place where people with dissimilar backgrounds can interact
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Like is an antonym for dissimilar in not alike topic.
Nearby Words: dissimilarity, dissimilitude, dissimilarly, dissimilation

Like

Like adjective - Having qualities in common.
Usage example: you're not talking about like things when you compare football and golf
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Dissimilar is an antonym for like in topics: similar to, similar.
Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable
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  • Bug spray commercials tend to anthropomorphize insects into talking, sometimes singing bugs that are cheerfully killed by a compound not too dissimilar to nerve gasses like Sarin.
    Source: Fridge Horror / Advertising
  • Comic Book / Rachel Summers She does look incredibly like Jean, but is usually drawn looking utterly dissimilar.
    Source: Comic Book / Rachel Summers
  • Bonus points if the twins have dissimilar full names but usually go by nicknames which fit this trope, like Phil and Lil (full names Philip and Lillian) from Rugrats.
    Source: Theme Twin Naming
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