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different
differentI like her haircut - it's different!
dissimilarThe twins may look alike, but they are quite dissimilar when it comes to personality.
diverseLondon is a culturally diverse city.
heterogeneousThey tested a heterogeneous population.

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dissimilar | American Dictionary

dissimilar
adjective
us/dɪsˈsɪm·ə·lər/
not similar; different:
Her diagnosis was not dissimilar (= was similar) to that of the previous doctor.

Examples of dissimilar

dissimilar
The placeholder objects were selected so that they were highly dissimilar to the object they replaced.
This, and the teachers' daily monitoring of children's apparel, is not dissimilar from government schools.
To achieve a shared regional identification, maybe the sharing of similar experiences is indeed more important than exchanging dissimilar views on what conflict is about.
These unexplained differences could in fact be interpreted in terms of the dissimilar administrative practices at the municipality level.
Many of those occupying the other royalist camp adopted not dissimilar views.
They also merge files from various sections of newspapers which are dissimilar in register and stance.
Thus, after making a critical review of different possible explanations of these dissimilar outcomes, the author suggests his own, based on the factors mentioned above.
In this respect they seem rather dissimilar to existentials, which accept locative initial order very naturally and without a marked position of focus.
In particular, similarity on one side can be compensated by having a more dissimilar segment on the other side.
The important question here is whether dissimilar social policy constructions account for the differences in migrants' ability to enjoy a socially acceptable standard of living.
Subsequently, we will explore whether familiar predictors of tolerance exert similar or dissimilar effects on generic and discriminatory perceptions.
It is therefore necessarily included in nonshared environment, which comprises everything that makes twins dissimilar.
Kolers (1963) concluded that the high level of dissimilar associations within- and between-languages entailed that word meanings are stored separately in bilingual memory.
Similar sequences are clustered together and successively dissimilar sequences further away, without implying a hierarchy.
Within each region, different genes code for rather dissimilar proteins and apparently do not constitute any clusters.
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