Meaning of similar in English

Classifying Adjective
similar
Definitions
1. (of words) expressing closely related meanings
Synonyms
- synonymous
2. capable of replacing or changing places with something else
Examples
- « interchangeable parts »
Synonyms
- replaceable
Qualitative Adjective
similar
Etymology
late 16th century (also as a term in anatomy meaning ‘homogeneous’): from French similaire or medieval Latin similaris, from Latin similis‘like’
Definitions
1. marked by correspondence or resemblance
Examples
- « similar food at similar prices »
- « problems similar to mine »
- « they wore similar coats »
Synonyms
Antonyms
- dissimilar
2. having the same or similar characteristics
Examples
- « all politicians are alike »
- « they looked utterly alike »
- « friends are generaly alike in background and taste »
Antonyms
- unalike
- dissimilar
3. resembling or similar
Examples
- « 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 d »
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