Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance. 
     V. be similar &c. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack
of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate &c. 19; favor, span [U.  S.].
     render similar &c. adj.; assimilate, approximate, bring near;
connaturalize[obs3], make alike; rhyme, pun. 
     Adj. similar; resembling &c. v.; like, alike; twin.
     analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece[Fr]; such as, so;
homoiousian[obs3].
     connatural[obs3], congener, allied to; akin to &c. (consanguineous) 1
1.
     approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in
the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.
     exact &c. (true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to
life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d’eau[Fr]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium[Lat], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like. 
     Adv. as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as,
veluti in speculum[Lat]. 
     Phr. et sic de similibus[Lat]; tel maitre tel valet[Fr]; tel pere tel
fils[Fr]; like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block

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     #18.  Dissimilarity. —­ N. dissimilarity, dissimilaritude[obs3];
unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance[obs3]; divergence, variation.; difference &c. 15; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy[obs3]. 
     V. be unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (differ) 15; bear no resemblance to,
differ toto coelo[Lat].
     render unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (diversify) 140. 
     Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind &c.
(class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented &c. 83; original.
     nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it,
cast in a different mold, tertium quid[Lat], as like a dock as a daisy, “very like a whale” [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo[Lat].
     diversified &c. 16a. 
     Adv. otherwise. 
     Phr. diis aliter visum[Lat]; “no more like my father than I to
Hercules” [Hamlet].

     #19.  Imitation. —­ N. imitation; copying &c. v.; transcription;
repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint.
     mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation;
representation &c. 554; semblance; copy &c. 21; assimilation.
     paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature &c. 21.
     plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c. (falsehood) 544; celluloid.
     imitator, echo, cuckoo|, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime;

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