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;