noun
definition
Something that is not like something else; something different.
adjective
definition
Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance.
example
The brothers are quite unlike each other.
definition
Unequal.
example
They contributed in unlike amounts.
definition
Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
preposition
definition
Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
definition
In contrast with; as opposed to.
definition
Not typical of one's character or personality.
example
Being late is unlike him.
Examples of unlike in a Sentence
This was so unlike the girl I'd known for a lifetime.
Unlike an elevator, it didn't appear to move.
His perspective was unique, unlike that of anyone else she'd ever met.
He sounded pleased, unlike the moods he'd been in lately.
Unlike her father, this creature was capable of sympathy.
Did you meet someone unlike us?
The man before her looked pretty human himself, with beautiful brown eyes and a body unlike any she'd seen before.
Unlike Darkyn, whose hair was short, Zamon's long hair was captured in a braid.
Desolation, unlike anything she'd ever felt, made her want to sink into the ground and stay there.
Unlike the nightmares, this time it was real and agonizingly slow.
Really he is quite unlike him-- in everything.
She was very unlike the women of his society.
Unlike the others whose paths she'd crossed earlier, he didn't ignore her.
Unlike Alex, she had been willing to delegate.
Unlike you, I don't need to resort to violence to win.
Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone before.
Unlike me, they can read it to find who they want.
Unlike yours, my mate accepts her place.
It made him all the more untamed, unlike Romas's sculpted beauty.
It was very unlike his friend and second-in-command to allow his control to slip in such a drastic way.
The warm liquid that filled his mouth was as sweet as it smelled, and unlike anything he ever experienced.
Unlike me, Betsy was very familiar with the house having spent much time with Martha and Claire.
But unlike petite Cynthia, Maria was compact—not fat, but solid.
But unlike the floating package that danced among the rocks, the tin had not floated away.
The first man that turns up--she forgets her father and everything else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike herself!
Unlike the others dressed for a white tie event, he was dressed in leather pants with a tight black Pearl Jam T-shirt, his hair braided, a chain from his spiked belt to his wallet, and heavy black boots.
He.d have the girl soon, and he.d create an army unlike any that preceded him.
But this is impossible; for unlike things cannot be like, nor like things unlike.
Her hair was short and curly, too, unlike the blond, blue-eyed father that'd all but raped Jenn on their mating night.
You will have power unlike any other creature in either world.
Unlike her cousins, he knew when she was bluffing.
The site is one of great natural strength and remarkable beauty, though quite unlike that of other Greek cities in Sicily.
The great churches of those cities are wholly unlike those of Sicily; but, while some features show us that we are in Italy, while some features even savour of the Saracen, others distinctly carry us away to Caen and Peterborough.
We see indeed faint traces of distinction among the patricians themselves, which may lead us to guess that the equality of all patricians may have been won by struggles of unrecorded days, not unlike those which in recorded days brought about the equality of patrician and plebeian.
Unlike the walls of most Chinese cities, those of Peking are kept in perfect order.
Unlike that war, this was carried to the western provinces, and indeed was fiercest there.
A/, shows a form sufficiently unlike it is necessary to suspend judgment.
Unlike the state in this, localities are limited in respect to the amount and form of their taxation.
Unlike those states, it depends in great part on mining and its allied occupations.
Desperately trapped by need unlike anything she'd ever known, she obeyed.
His words appeared genuine, unlike Kris's.
Unlike you and Rhyn, I'd welcome a partner to share eternity and this disaster of a world with.
Unlike most men, he didn't back down from her, a reaction that intrigued her.
We will build an army unlike any that has ever existed, and we will use it to seek revenge on your father for betraying you and her.
It let her amass an army unlike any that had ever existed and showed her the key to victory.
Jessi froze, not completely connecting with the fact she stood in a place unlike the coastal southern California area.
The air around him was strangely still, the heat of a body unlike any she'd ever seen before reminding her she hadn't dated in four years.
The colour, with the exception of the gills, is not unlike that of the mushroom.
The Geometry of Descartes, unlike the other parts of his essays, is not easy reading.
Solutions of yttria salts in their behaviour to reagents are not unlike those of zirconia.