say it: di-SIM-uh-lur
dissimilar is an adjective meaning "not similar". It carries 2 recorded senses.
not similar
“a group of very dissimilar people”
“a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm”
“their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own”
“took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dissimilar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.