Advertisement

Advertisement

simular

[ sim-yuh-ler ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that simulates; pretender.


adjective

  1. simulated; false; counterfeit.
  2. imitative; simulative.

simular

/ ˈsɪmjʊlə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that simulates or imitates; sham
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. fake; simulated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

Other Words From

  • non·simu·lar noun adjective
  • un·simu·lar adjective
Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of simular1

1520–30; < Latin simul ( āre ) to simulate + -ar 2, -ar 1
Discover More

Example Sentences

Tres agentes de la policía se ponen de acuerdo con la hija de un poderoso narcotraficante para simular un secuestro.

They must represent gerrymandered enclaves of simular lunatics. 

From Time

They revolve on their axes, simular to the world, from east to west, and have already reached the shores of the Pacifick oshun.

If mi memory serves me right, the moshun ov the velosipead iz purely a crank moshun, simular tew the grind stun, and iz produced the same way, that the scizzor grinder stirs up his masheen.

And passing through the same wood with a Whitehaven dandy of sixty, now in Hades, who happened to wear a beautiful wig from which on account of the heat he had removed his hat, we saw with these eyes of ours one of those same thickets which heretofore had been concerned in our own caning, deliberately lift up, suspend, and keep dangling in the air for the contempt of the public that auburn wig which was presumed by its wearer to be simular of native curls.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


simulantsimulate