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/əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs/ · adjective
Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".).
Analogous tendencies in arts and in manners.
Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death.
Accustomed as we are to working in small, “bounded” rural communities, anthropologists are often disconcerted by the amorphous and heterogeneous populations of large cities. How are the boundaries of the urban sample to be determined, and how should the fieldworker proceed with his study? As Anthony Leeds has pointed out (1968:31), we often try to solve this problem by concentrating on slums, squatter settlements, or ethnic minorities, on the assumption that they are analogous to the small rural villages we know, and that they can be investigated in similar fashion. Watson, for example, found that even in London he carried the image of the rural village with him from San Tin, the village in the Hong Kong New Territories he had studied.
At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985.
Use analogous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Analogous means Having analogy, the status of an analogue; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or similar proportion (often followed by "to".).
Common synonyms include correspondent, like, similar, comparable.
Possible antonyms include homologous, heterological, heterologic, heterologous.
Analogous tendencies in arts and in manners.
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