unlike

Meanings

1. 1
   prep

   Different from someone or something.

   Unlike her sister, she loves cold weather.

2. 2
   prep

   Not typical of someone's usual character or behavior.

   Being late is unlike him.

3. 3
   adj

   Not alike; different from each other.

   The brothers are quite unlike each other.

From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).

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