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Definition of Resemble
1. Verb. Appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to. "This paper resembles my own work"
Specialized synonyms: Look Like, Come To Life, Take After, Approximate, Come Close, Imitate, Echo, Recall
Derivative terms: Resemblance
Definition of Resemble
1. v. t. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
Definition of Resemble
1. Verb. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive now rare archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Resemble
1. to be similar to [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resemble
Literary usage of Resemble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In any given group, the elements of the even series (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12)
resemble one another, as a general rule, more closely than they resemble those ..."
2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally,
related to each other, and in having restricted ranges. ..."
3. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"... country vary more frequently than the species of the smaller genera—Many of
the species of the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, ..."
4. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"... more frequently than the species of the smaller genera—Many of the species of
the larger genera resemble varieties in being very closely, but unequally, ..."
5. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1841)
"Do not resemble the known Works of Japan and China. ... The Pyramids of Egypt,
in their original State, do not resemble what are called the Pyramids of A ..."
6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To copy; to resemble; to represent. All the gazers on the skies, Read nut in fair
heav'n's ... In moral ideas we have no sensible marks that resemble them, ..."
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