Definitions for unlike

unlike un·like

Spelling: [uhn-lahyk]
IPA: /ʌnˈlaɪk/

Unlike is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in unlike (eiklnu).

Definitions for unlike

noun

  1. a person or thing differing from another or others.

adjective

  1. different, dissimilar, or unequal; not alike:

preposition

  1. dissimilar to; different from:
  2. not typical or characteristic of:

Origin of unlike

First recorded in 1150-1200, unlike is from the Middle English word unlik. See un-1, like1

Examples for unlike

unlike any other show, no relationship is idealized above any other.

unlike former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Huckabee is not immediately forming an exploratory committee.

I have one dreary, cold room, as unlike this as two rooms can be.

unlike Mlle. Higbee, she has not the father from Chicago nor elsewhere.

unlike the Soviet Union at a certain period in history, the Russian economy does not hold a candle to that of the United States.

She was not moralizing; at least it was unlike any moralizing that they had ever heard.

Garson answered with a note of weariness that was unlike him.

There was something about her eyes not unlike the dog's expression, submissive, but questioning.

unlike the characters he plays, men who came from nowhere and, as he himself puts it, “go home to nobody.”

Ironically, unlike Dukakis and apparently Paul, Bill Clinton and Al Gore had each “read the memo” back in the day.

Word Value for unlike
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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