Difference between Suchlike and Similar

What is the difference between Suchlike and Similar?

Suchlike as an adjective is of the same or similar kind while Similar as an adjective is having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

Suchlike

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of the same or similar kind

Part of speech: pronoun

Definition: Other things of the same kind or type.

Similar

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.of triangles, etc., having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional (the same shape, but possibly different size).

Example sentence: My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

We hope you now know whether to use Suchlike or Similar in your sentence.

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