Dunno is listening to you
similar [ sim·i·lar ]
Pronounce
Video
News
Filter
All
English-English
Synonymous
Grammar
Collocation
Level
Adjective
1. Having a resemblance in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical.
northern India and similar areas
Show more (2)
2. (of geometrical figures) having the same shape, with the same angles and proportions, though of different sizes.
When the ratio is 1 then the similar triangles become congruent triangles (same shape and size).
Noun
1. A person or thing similar to another.
In other words, if a normal person would say two images are essentially the same, they are "similars."
Show more (1)
2. (usually similars) A substance that produces effects resembling the symptoms of particular diseases (the basis of homeopathic treatment)
Yet despite having demonstrated that the law of similars has not generally been applied to the use of mild herbal substances, one question still remains.
Show more (2)
Usage
1. The standard construction for similar is with to, as in I've had problems similar to yours. However, in British English, the construction similar as is sometimes used instead, as in I've had similar problems as yourself. This is not accepted as correct in standard English
Origin
1. Late 16th century (also as a term in anatomy meaning ‘homogeneous’): from French similaire or medieval Latin similaris, from Latin similis ‘like’.
Image
Practice pronunciation
Learning goes hand in hand
✖
News
No result
