analogous
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
brains and computers are often considered analogous
Related & opposite
- analogy derivation
- parallelism derivation
- analogy derivation
- commensurateness derivation
- equate derivation
- tally derivation
- represent derivation
- similar similar to
Sense 2 adjective
corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin
the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous
Related & opposite
- homologous antonym
- heterologous antonym
- biology domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | parallelism |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | analogy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | commensurateness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | equate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tally |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | represent |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | similar |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | homologous |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | heterologous |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | biology |