adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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But their styles were really very dissimilar and that became very plain from the moment really that Mr Callaghan took over.
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Even concordant Crohn's disease twins affected by the disease usually showed very dissimilar subclass ratios.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is hard to imagine two ethnically identical and adjoining societies so dissimilar in style and philosophy.
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Johnson held a not dissimilar reciprocal opinion, comparing Monboddo to another of his own bugbears, Rousseau.
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Marriage with close kin is generally forbidden in most societies and so, commonly, is marriage with people of dissimilar culture.
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The hull contained a mass of dissimilar metals: steel, cast and malleable iron, brass. bronze and lead.
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The organic matter is extremely old and quite dissimilar to biological material.
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There's a similar sense of humour and a dissimilar sense of space.
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They realized the advantages of working together, particularly because their temperatures were so dissimilar .