- analogous, correspondent - similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat"
Antonym: dissimilar (indirect, via similar)
- correspondent, letter writer - someone who communicates by means of letters
--1 is a kind of communicator
--1 has particulars: pen pal, pen-friendDerived form: verb correspond3 - correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman - a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
--2 is a kind of journalist
--2 has particulars: foreign correspondent; war correspondent