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Synonyms for unlike

different from

Synonyms

  • different from
  • dissimilar to
  • not resembling
  • far from
  • not like
  • distinct from
  • incompatible with
  • unrelated to
  • distant from
  • unequal to
  • far apart from
  • divergent from
  • not similar to
  • as different as chalk and cheese from

Antonyms

contrasted with

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Synonyms for unlike

not like another in nature, quality, amount, or form

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Synonyms for unlike

marked by dissimilarity

not equal in amount

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And is not the unjust like the wise and good and the just unlike them?
Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite?
She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
Unlike most of the big chiefs, Nau-hau was young, and, unlike most of the Melanesians, he was handsome, even beautiful.
Your being so far unlike, Fanny, does not in the smallest degree make against the probability of your happiness together: do not imagine it.
You are like unto my people, and yet so unlike. You speak my language, and yet I heard you tell Tars Tarkas that you had but learned it recently.
Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top.
He was so unlike what he had ever shown himself to be, and it was so sad to think how much he had thrown away, and how much he every day kept down and perverted, that Lucie Manette wept mournfully for him as he stood looking back at her.
When Mrs Flintwinch dreamed, she usually dreamed, unlike the son of her old mistress, with her eyes shut.
Nothing could be more unlike his native town, set within sight of the widespread hillsides, than this low, wooded region, where he felt hidden even from the heavens by the screening trees and hedgerows.
But every time he began talking to her, he felt that the spirit of evil and deceit, which had taken possession of her, had possession of him too, and he talked to her in a tone quite unlike that in which he had meant to talk.
The apparition confronting the dreamer in the haunted wood--the thing so like, yet so unlike his mother--was horrible!
How the poem proceeded we have no means of knowing, but we may suppose that in character it was not unlike the short account of the Titan War found in the Hesiodic "Theogony" (617 ff.).
I do not mean that you could read it as it was first printed, for the oldest kind of printing was not unlike the writing used in manuscripts and so seems hard to read now.
The fruit somewhat resembles in magnitude and general appearance one of our citron melons of ordinary size; but, unlike the citron, it has no sectional lines drawn along the outside.