similar

adjective

1. 1

   Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.

   My new car is quite similar to my old one, except it has a bit more space in the back.

   So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

2. 2

   Having the same shape, in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional.

3. 3

   Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.

noun

1. 1

   That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

2. 2

   A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.

Forms

plural

similars

comparative

more similar

superlative

most similar