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Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.

Absence of likelihood.

The quality or state of being unlikely.

Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.

To make unlike; to dissimilate. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity. Tennyson.

Like or resembling the sun. "A spot of sunlike brilliancy." Tyndall.

To be unlike; to differ. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper.

spond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.

That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

ribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

hem.), the theory that all chemical compounds consist of two constituents of opposite and unlike qualities.

reenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight.

oth, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

traction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

plant, Compass flower (Bot.), a plant of the American prairies (Silphium laciniatum), not unlike a small sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present their edges north and south. Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet: This is the compass fl…

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.