Resemble vs Reminiscent - What's the difference?
resemble | reminiscent |
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
of, or relating to reminiscence
suggestive of an earlier event or times
tending to bring some memory etc. to mind
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Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
* Sir W. Hamilton
As a verb resemble
is To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.As an adjective reminiscent is
of, or relating to reminiscence.As a noun reminiscent is
one who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.
Synonyms
* mirror * duplicate * look likereminiscent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis'', with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in ''Frullania spp.
- Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent .