Word Study
unlike
CIDE DICTIONARY
unlike, a.
- Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike. [1913 Webster]
- Not likely; improbable; unlikely. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unlike, adj. & prep.
--adj.
1 not like; different from (is unlike both his parents).
2 uncharacteristic of (such behaviour is unlike him).
3 dissimilar, different.
--prep. differently from (acts quite unlike anyone else).
--adj.
1 not like; different from (is unlike both his parents).
2 uncharacteristic of (such behaviour is unlike him).
3 dissimilar, different.
--prep. differently from (acts quite unlike anyone else).
Idiom
unlike signs Math. plus and minus.
Derivative
unlikeness n.
Etymology
perh. f. ON {uacute}l{iacute}kr, OE ungelic: see LIKE(1)
THESAURUS
unlike
assorted, at odds, at variance, atypical, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, in contrast with, in disagreement, inaccordant, incommensurable, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, many, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd, of different orders, off, offbeat, opposite to, out, poles apart, poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, unalike, uncharacteristic, unconformable, unequal, unequal to, unidentical, unmatched, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, untypical, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apartROGET THESAURUS
unlike
Dissimilarity
N dissimilarity, dissimilaritude, unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance, divergence, variation, difference, novelty, originality, creativeness, oogamy, dissimilar, unlike, disparate, divergent, of a different kind, unmatched, unique, new, novel, unprecedented, original, nothing of the kind, no such thing, quite another thing, far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale, as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth, lucus a non lucendo, diversified, otherwise, diis aliter visum, no more like my father than I to Hercules.For further exploring for "unlike" in Webster Dictionary Online