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Similar

Sim´i`lar
a.1.Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
2.Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
3.Homogenous; uniform.
Similar figures
(Geom.) figures which differ from each other only in magnitude, being made up of the same number of like parts similarly situated.
Similar rectilineal figures
such as have their several angles respectively equal, each to each, and their sides about the equal angles proportional.
Similar solids
such as are contained by the same number of similar planes, similarly situated, and having like inclination to one another.
n.1.That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
Adj.1.similar - marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats"
Antonyms:
dissimilar - not similar; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"
2.similar - having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste"
Synonyms: alike, like
3.similar - resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality"
Synonyms: like
4.similar - (of words) expressing closely related meanings
5.similar - capable of replacing or changing places with something else; "interchangeable parts"
agnate, analogical, aped, approximate, approximating, approximative, be like, close, collatable, commensurable, commensurate, comparative, complementary, consimilar, consonant, copied, correspond to, counterfeit, equivalent, ersatz, fake, favoring, following, homogeneous, homologous, identical, imitated, imitation, like, matchable, mimicked, mock, much at one, much the same, near, nearly reproduced, nearly the same, not unlike, phony, proximate, reciprocal, relatable, relative, resemble, simulated, smacking of, something like, suggestive of, synthetic, uniform, uniform with

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