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dissimile

See also: dissimilé

English

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Etymology

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Latin dissimile, neuter dissimilis (“unlike”).

Noun

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dissimile (countable and uncountable, plural dissimiles)

  1. (rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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dissimile

  1. inflection of dissimiler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin dissimilis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /disˈsi.mi.le/
  • Rhymes: -imile
  • Hyphenation: dis‧sì‧mi‧le

Adjective

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dissimile (plural dissimili) [+ da (object)]

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

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • dissimile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Adjective

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dissimile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dissimilis

Middle English

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Verb

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dissimile

  1. Alternative form of dissimulen
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