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unlike

[uhn-lahyk] / ʌnˈlaɪk /
ADJECTIVE
different
Synonyms
STRONG
dissimilar
WEAK
apples and oranges clashing conflicting contradictory contrary contrasted discordant disharmonious disparate dissonant distant distinct divergent diverse far cry from heterogeneous hostile incompatible incongruous inconsistent mismatched not alike offbeat opposed opposite poles apart separate unalike unequal unrelated variant various weird
Antonyms
WEAK
alike like related same similar

Example Sentences

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But they were totally unlike their corporate cousins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"I'm starting from scratch with apprentices in this sector, unlike electricians where they have grounding at college for at least a year."

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Like graphene, it forms layered structures, but unlike graphene, it is a semiconductor.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Lawrence, who worked with him on his adaptation of Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” describes him as surprisingly modest, entirely unlike his swaggering creations.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

“And, unlike Charlotte, I wasn’t using a supercomputer capable of performing over five hundred trillion floating-point operations per second.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti