dictionary definitions for "unlike"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unlike \Un*like"\, a.
     1. Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as,
        the cases are unlike.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Not likely; improbable; unlikely. [Obsoles.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Unlike quantities (Math.), quantities expressed by letters
        which are different or of different powers, as a, b, c,
        a^2, a^3, x^n, and the like.
  
     Unlike signs (Math.), the signs plus (+) and minus (-).
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  unlike
      adj 1: marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very
             unlike"; "people are profoundly different" [syn:
             unlike, dissimilar, different] [ant: like,
             similar]
      2: not equal in amount; "they distributed unlike (or unequal)
         sums to the various charities" [ant: like, same]


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