dissimile
See also: dissimilé
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin dissimile, neuter dissimilis (“unlike”).
Noun
editdissimile (countable and uncountable, plural dissimiles)
- (rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.
Antonyms
editPart 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editFrench
editPronunciation
editVerb
editdissimile
- inflection of dissimiler:
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin dissimilis.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editdissimile (plural dissimili) [with da]
- different (from)
- dissimilar (to)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- dissimile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editAdjective
editdissimile
Middle English
editVerb
editdissimile
- Alternative form of dissimulen
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