Unlike vs Incongruous - What's the difference?
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Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.
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Unequal.
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(archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
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In contrast with.
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To dislike.
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To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites
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Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
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(math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
As adjectives the difference between unlike and incongruous
is that unlike is not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance while incongruous is not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.As a preposition unlike
is differently from; not in a like or similar manner.As a verb unlike
is to dislike.unlike
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) unlic, unlich, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The brothers are quite unlike each other.
- They contributed in unlike amounts.
Preposition
(English prepositions)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(unlik)- I unliked the video link after I realized it was making fun of me.
On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
- Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like'' button. Toggling off the button results in ''unliking''''' your previously ''liked'' item. Note that this is different from ''disliking'' something, since '''''unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet :
- My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking " stern pinball entirely.
incongruous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
- Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
- Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
- For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
- 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.