set sth/sb apart
— phrasal verb with set uk/set/us/set/verb present participle setting, past tense and past participle set
If a quality or characteristic sets someone or something apart, it shows him, her, or it to be different from, and usually better than, others of the same type:
What set her apart from the other candidates for the job was that she had a lot of original ideas.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Being and appearing different
- another
- be a far cry from sth idiom
- be another matter/thing idiom
- be another/a different kettle of fish idiom
- be far removed from sth idiom
- buck
- conflict
- contrast
- depart
- depart from sth
- deviate
- differ
- differentiate
- fish
- flow
- polymorphous
- rebrand
- rebranding
- remove
- unbridgeable
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