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Mathematics: Figures shown in the same color are similar

From French similaire, from Medieval Latin similaris, extended from Latin similis (“like”); akin to simul (“together”).

(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪm.ɪ.lə/, /ˈsɪm.ə.lə/
(General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɪm.ə.lɚ/, /ˈsɪm.lɚ/
(General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsɪm.ə.lə/
(New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈsəm.ə.lə/
(Hong Kong) IPA(key): /ˈsiː.miː.laː/, /ˈsiː.miu̯.laː/
Hyphenation: sim‧i‧lar

similar (comparative more similar, superlative most similar)

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.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
  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.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
  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.
(mathematics) Having the same shape, in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional.
(mathematics, linear algebra) Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.

(with common characteristics): akin, allied, alike, comparable, identical, same, twin, homologous, kindred
(antonym(s) of “alike”): different, unlike, dissimilar
antisimilar
bisimilar
haplosimilar
in a similar vein
nonsimilar
oversimilar
self-similar
similarily
similarish
similariton
similarity
similarize
similarly
similarness
similary
similect
subsimilar
unsimilar

having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable

Albanian: i ngjashëm (sq)
Arabic: مُمَاثِل (ar) (mumāṯil)
Armenian: նման (hy) (nman)
Asturian: paecíu, semeyante
Azerbaijani: oxşar (az), bənzər (az)
Belarusian: падо́бны (padóbny)
Bengali: অনুরূপ (bn) (onurup)
Bulgarian: подо́бен (bg) (podóben), сходен (bg) (shoden)
Burmese: ဆန် (my) (hcan)
Catalan: similar (ca), semblant (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 差唔多 (yue) (caa1 m4 do1)
Mandarin: 類似 / 类似 (zh) (lèisì), 差不多 (zh) (chàbùduō), 相似 (zh) (xiāngsì)
Cornish: haval
Czech: podobný (cs) m
Danish: lignende, magen til
Dutch: dergelijk (nl), vergelijkbaar (nl), soortgelijk (nl)
Esperanto: simila
Evenki: урэлды (urəldi)
Faroese: líkur, líknandi, átøkur, álíkur
Finnish: samanlainen (fi)
French: similaire (fr), semblable (fr) m or f
Friulian: someant, pareli, simil
Galician: semellante (gl)
Georgian: მსგავსი (ka) (msgavsi)
German: ähnlich (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (galeiks)
Greek: παρόμοιος (el) (parómoios), όμοιος (el) (ómoios)
Ancient Greek: ὅμοιος (hómoios)
Hebrew: דומה m (domé), משול m (mashúl)
Hindi: समान (hi) (samān), अनुरूप (anurūp)
Hungarian: hasonló (hu)
Ido: simila (io)
Indonesian: serupa (id), mirip (id)
Ingrian: samantapain, näköin
Italian: simile (it), somigliante (it), rassomigliante (it)
Japanese: 似ている (ja) (にている, nite iru)
Kazakh: сияқты (siäqty), ұқсас (ūqsas)
Khmer: ដូច (km) (douc)
Korean: 비슷하다 (ko) (biseuthada), 같다 (ko) (gatda)
Kyrgyz: окшош (ky) (okşoş)
Lao: ຄ້າຍ (lo) (khāi)
Latin: similis (la)
Latvian: līdzīgs
Lithuanian: panašus
Luxembourgish: ähnlech
Macedonian: сличен (sličen)
Malay: serupa
Malayalam: സമാന (ml) (samāna)
Māori: oropapa
Mari:
Eastern Mari: лишыл (ĺišyl)
Naga:
Khiamniungan Naga: èm
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lignende, liknende
Nynorsk: liknande
Occitan: semblant (oc), semblari
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: подобьнъ (podobĭnŭ)
Old East Slavic: подобьнъ (podobĭnŭ)
Old English: gelīc
Persian: مشابه (fa) (mošâbe), مانند (fa) (mânand), شبیه (fa) (šabih)
Plautdietsch: dämänlich
Polish: podobny (pl)
Portuguese: parecido (pt), semelhante (pt), similar (pt)
Romanian: similar (ro), asemănător (ro)
Romansh: sumegliant, semegliont, samagliànt, sumigliaint, sumgiaint, sumgliaint
Russian: подо́бный (ru) (podóbnyj), похо́жий (ru) (poxóžij), схо́жий (ru) (sxóžij), схо́дный (ru) (sxódnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: coltach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сли̏чан
Latin: slȉčan (sh)
Slovak: podobný
Slovene: podóben
Spanish: similar (es), semejante (es), parecido (es), parejo (es), equiparable
Swedish: liknande (sv)
Tagalog: hawig, kahawig
Tajik: монанд (tg) (monand), шабеҳ (šabeh), мушобеҳ (mušobeh)
Tatar: охшаш (oxşaş), охшаган (oxşağan)
Thai: คล้าย (th) (kláai)
Turkish: benzer (tr), müşabih (tr), mümasil (tr)
Turkmen: meňzeş
Ukrainian: поді́бний (podíbnyj), схо́жий (sxóžyj)
Urdu: سمان (samān)
Uyghur: ئوخشاش (oxshash)
Uzbek: oʻxshash (uz), oʻxshagan (uz)
Venetan: somejante, somegiante
Vietnamese: giống (vi) (𠏳), tựa (vi), như (vi), giống như, tựa như
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

of geometric figures, having the same shape

Armenian: նման (hy) (nman)
Bulgarian: подобен (bg) (podoben)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 相似 (zh) (xiāngsì)
Czech: podobný (cs)
Finnish: yhdenmuotoinen
Georgian: მსგავსი (ka) (msgavsi)
German: ähnlich (de)
Greek: όμοιος (el) (ómoios)
Hebrew: דומה (domé)
Icelandic: einslaga, einslagaður, einshyrndur
Italian: simile (it)
Japanese: 相似 (ja) (sōji)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hevşêwe (ku)
Polish: podobny (pl) m
Romanian: asemenea (ro)
Russian: подо́бный (ru) (podóbnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: sùkladan (sh)
Spanish: semejante (es)
Tagalog: hawig, kahawig

similar (plural similars)

That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.
Hyponyms: lookalike, soundalike; biosimilar; imitation; simulacrum
(homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.

“similar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “similar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin similāris.

IPA(key): (Central) [si.miˈlar]
IPA(key): (Balearic) [si.miˈla]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [si.miˈlaɾ]

similar m or f (masculine and feminine plural similars)

similar
Synonym: semblant

similitud
“similar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
(Brazil) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaʁ/ [si.miˈlah]
(Brazil) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaʁ/ [si.miˈlah]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaʁ/ [si.miˈlaχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaɻ/
(Portugal) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaɾ/
(Portugal) IPA(key): /si.miˈlaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /si.miˈla.ɾi/
Hyphenation: si‧mi‧lar

similar m or f (plural similares)

similar (having traits or characteristics in common) [_with_ a ‘to someone/something’]
Synonyms: parecido, semelhante

“similar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“similar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French similaire.

similar m or n (feminine singular similară, masculine plural similari, feminine/neuter plural similare)

similar

IPA(key): /simiˈlaɾ/ [si.miˈlaɾ]
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: si‧mi‧lar

similar m or f (masculine and feminine plural similares)

similar
Synonyms: semejante, parecido, símil (rare)
Antonyms: desemejante, desigual, diferente, disímil, dispar, disparejo, diverso

similarmente
similitud
“similar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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