dissimile

See also: dissimilé

English

Etymology

Latin dissimile, neuter dissimilis unlike.

Noun

dissimile (plural dissimiles)

  1. (rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dissimile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

dissimile

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dissimiler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of dissimiler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dissimiler
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dissimiler
  5. second-person singular imperative of dissimiler

Italian

Adjective

dissimile (masculine and feminine plural dissimili) (da)

  1. different (from)
  2. dissimilar (to)

Latin

Adjective

dissimile

  1. nominative neuter singular of dissimilis
  2. accusative neuter singular of dissimilis
  3. vocative neuter singular of dissimilis
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