paralleled

Mirrored in course

Paralleled is the past tense of parallel, meaning to match, equal, or run alongside something.

When something is paralleled, it has a counterpart or equivalent: Her rise to fame paralleled his fall from grace.

The word describes things that correspond or develop in similar ways: The growth in online shopping has paralleled the decline of malls.

compared

analogous

Comparable in certain respects

contrasted · juxtaposed · correlated · benchmarked · measured · weighed · assessed · evaluated · examined · studied

spatial

aligned

Arranged in proper position

contiguous · flush · juxtaposed · lateral · neighboring · tandem · railroad · tracks · lanes · lines

matched

counterpart

Corresponding person or thing

twin · mirror · analogue · homologue · peer · coequal · replica · facsimile · copy · surrogate

Opposites
similarity/correspondence

paralleledcontrasted

Shown differences between

diverged · differed · deviated · contradicted · opposed

uniqueness

paralleledunparalleled

Having no equivalent

unmatched · unequaled · unprecedented · peerless · matchless

directional alignment

paralleleddiverged

Separated from a course

converged · intersected · crossed · veered · branched

Phrases
Family

parallel, parallels, unparalleled, parallelism, paralleling, parallelogram, nonparallel, parallelisms, parallelization

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