resemblance Definition
re·sem·blance (ri zem′bləns)
noun
- the state, fact, or quality of resembling; similarity of appearance, or, sometimes, of character; likeness
- a point, degree, or sort of likeness
- something that resembles; likeness or semblance (of someone or something)
- Obsolete characteristic appearance
- Obsolete likelihood; probability
Etymology: ME < Anglo-Fr
resemblance Synonyms
resemblance Usage Examples
Converse of object
- bear: The Forge Shopping Center Today the East End bears little resemblance to the East End of twenty years ago.
- pass: It's not just a passing resemblance, either people really think I am him.
- bare: Some parts of the book are written in a style of prose which bares an uncanny resemblance to your own!
- trace: I hope you all can identify the whose who and trace family resemblances.
- notice: Did he notice facial resemblances to acknowledged IRA leaders?
- spot: And people love to play spot the resemblance: ' Hasn't he got his mother's nose?
Converse of subject
strike: Moreover, we cannot fail to be struck by the obvious resemblance of living organs to the carefully planned designs of human engineers.
Preposition: between
word: This kind of resemblance between words, in a systematic way, is at the same time taken for granted and fully natural.
Adjective modifier
- uncanny: Its uncanny resemblance to the developments in our own world cannot be denied.
- striking: He earned the nickname Alex due to his striking resemblance to a large marine turtle in Sea World Skegness.
- superficial: Maybe they thought it was a volcanic lake due to the superficial resemblance.
- startling: He was also the father of the late Terence Cuneo, the distinguished British Artist whose career bore a startling resemblance to his own.
- fancied: Muscle means little mouse in Latin, from the fancied resemblance of the muscle body contracting beneath the skin.
- remarkable: The side view shows a remarkable resemblance to the same builder's earlier Class 156 trains.
Noun used with modifier
- family: There is no essence to all games; there is only a family resemblance among games.
- bear: Whilst some of the real figures in the play bear resemblance to their historical counterparts, others are completely contrived.
- structure: Identification of tertiary structure resemblance in proteins using a maximal common subgraph isomorphism algorithm.
Preposition: in
- protein: Identification of tertiary structure resemblance in proteins using a maximal common subgraph isomorphism algorithm.
- style: I am not an expert in the field but even I can see a striking resemblance in style.
- structure: I was struck, while touring Thomas Haney Secondary, by its resemblance in structure and design to that school, Carmody Junior High.
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