dissimilar

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: Who it sounds like Crystal has a powerful voice not dissimilar to Whitney Houston at times.
• create: The quartet sound taps into the root of modern pop punk to create something not dissimilar to Fall Out Boy and New Found Glory.

Used with adjective complement

• sound: The 1974 album is a very fine soul offering, at times sounding not too dissimilar to the Reverend Al Green in parts.
• look: The dull design is the site's biggest weakness, with it not looking dissimilar to a school text book in places.
• seem: Geography The geography of the New Land seems not dissimilar to our own civilized world.

Modifies a noun

• metal: These parts can be composed of similar or dissimilar metals.
• task: We show that increasing template complexity increases interference with a dissimilar, concurrent task - story memory.
• material: Joins dissimilar materials, steel, aluminum, plastic.
• network: Over time, millions of computers and thousands of dissimilar networks worldwide have been connected through a global network of networks.
• thing: We're about as similar as two completely dissimilar things in a pod.
• system: It is a tool for running standard queries on dissimilar clinical system.

Modifying Another Word

• structurally: Where the premises are situated in a shopping area but are structurally dissimilar to a shop, different considerations may arise.
• too: Not too dissimilar, in fact, to Destiny's Child.
• entirely: He has put forward a most interesting business proposal, not entirely dissimilar in nature to your own.
• wholly: It is not wholly dissimilar in tone to Christina Rossetti's ' Goblin Market ' of 1862.
• totally: Two women, totally dissimilar to each other love Vicky with equal intensity.
• apparently: This can apply even where two posts look apparently dissimilar.

Preposition: in

• respect: The ITV job is not dissimilar in that respect to his newest role, he claims.
• style: Yesterday I bought a new pair of combats, not dissimilar in style to Miss Sixty ' s Dublin trousers.
• appearance: In 1953 they produced the AC Petite, a three wheeler not dissimilar in general appearance to the Bond.