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Resembled vs Reminded - What's the difference?

resembled | reminded |

As verbs the difference between resembled and reminded

is that resembled is past tense of resemble while reminded is past tense of remind.

resembled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (resemble)

  • resemble

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We will resemble you in that.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
  • * 2005 , .
  • But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
    The twins resemble each other.
  • To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
  • (obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • * Holland
  • They can so well resemble man's speech.
  • (obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
  • Synonyms

    * mirror * duplicate * look like

    reminded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (remind)

  • remind

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 3:
  • I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike.
  • * 1915 , , Victory: An Island Tale , "Author's Note":
  • His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.

    Synonyms

    * put someone in mind of

    Derived terms

    * reminder