dissimile
Appearance
See also: dissimilé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dissimile, neuter dissimilis (“unlike”).
Noun
[edit]dissimile (countable and uncountable, plural dissimiles)
- (rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.
Antonyms
[edit]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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dissimile
- inflection of dissimiler:
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dissimilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dissimile (plural dissimili) [with da]
- different (from)
- dissimilar (to)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- dissimile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dissimile
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]dissimile
- Alternative form of dissimulen
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