Resembled

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɛmbl̩d/

Definitions

1. Had an appearance or qualities that were similar to someone or something else
2. Shared traits or features with another person or object in a way that suggested similarity
3. Presented characteristics or looked in a manner that closely matched another

Etymology: "Resembled" is the past tense of "resemble", so its history is that of the verb itself. "Resemble" came into Middle English from Anglo-Norman "resembler" and "ressembler", and it is built from the prefix "re-" plus "sembler", meaning "to seem". Its ancestry therefore lies less in the idea of likeness than in the idea of appearing: to resemble something was, at root, to seem again in its image. The verb's core notion of "seeming" is preserved in its sister word "semble", which survives in legal and formal English as a way of saying "it seems to be". The two words share a stem, so the sense of appearance sits at the heart of both. Over time the English verb narrowed from a broad sense of seeming to the specific sense of sharing a look or qualities with another thing.

Synonyms: looked like, similar to, mirrored, echoed, reminiscent of

Antonyms: differed, contrasted, diverged, disagreed, varied