similar
Meaning of similar
adjective
- having a resemblance in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical.
a soft cheese similar to Brie
northern India and similar areas
- a person or thing similar to another.
he was one of those whose similar you never meet
- a substance that produces effects resembling the symptoms of particular diseases (the basis of homeopathic treatment).
the principle of treatment by similars
late 16th century (also as a term in anatomy meaning ‘homogeneous’): from French similaire or medieval Latin similaris, from Latin similis ‘like’.
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of similar
sim-i-lar
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- similar is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
similar synonyms
Meaning alike:
Meaning like:
Meaning exchangeable:
exchangeable, interchangeable, standardized
Meaning not able to be identified as different or distinct:
Meaning only a short distance away or apart in space or time:
Meaning located a short distance away:
Meaning of the same kind; alike:
Meaning similar in kind; related:
Meaning of similar character:
Meaning belonging to the same family, group, or type; connected:
Meaning able to be likened to another; similar:
Meaning analogous or equivalent in character, form, or function; comparable:
Meaning occurring or existing at the same time or in a similar way; corresponding:
Meaning equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc:
Meaning comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared:
Meaning corresponding in pattern, colour, or design; complementary:
similar antonyms
Meaning not the same; different:
Meaning not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality:
Meaning dissimilar or different from each other:
Translation of similar
Words that rhyme with similar
Bailar, atrabilar, jubilar, strobilar, subnubilar, apicilar, baccilar, bifilar, filar, interfilar, quadrifilar, trifilar, unifilar, Hilar, hilar, perihilar, Kilar, consimilar, dissimilar, nonsimilar, suisimilar, unsimilar, verisimilar, Pilar, pilar, primipilar, pupilar, basilar, bibasilar, cervicobasilar, coronobasilar, nasobasilar, occipitobasilar, prebasilar, sphenobasilar, tonsilar, tribasilar, vertebrobasilar, vomerobasilar, hypoptilar, Aguilar
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