Diverse
[daɪ'vɜːs;'daɪvɜːs] or [daɪ'vɝs]
Definition
(adj.) distinctly dissimilar or unlike; 'celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan'; 'animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth' .
Checked by Blanchard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
(a.) Capable of various forms; multiform.
(adv.) In different directions; diversely.
(v. i.) To turn aside.
Editor: Sasha
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Different, differing, unlike, varying, multiform.
Typed by Jack
Definition
adj. different: unlike: multiform: various.—adv. Dī′versely or Diverse′ly.
Edited by Laurence
Examples
- And the kinds of knowledge in a State are many and diverse? Plato. The Republic.
- They came by diverse routes from France, Normandy, Flanders, England, Southern Italy, and Sicily, and the will and power of them were the Normans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For seven years Fulton lived with them, busy about the most diverse matters, and always keenly interested in the struggles of the new and hot-tempered republic. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One man is concerned in a multitude of diverse groups, in which his associates may be quite different. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was not a natural product of any of the three united but diverse British peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moreover, ineradicable connection with the changing, the inexplicably shifting, and with the manifold, the diverse, clings to experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Both relied successfully upon the power of the written word to link great multitudes of diverse men together in common enterprises. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neither is the soul variable and diverse; for that which is immortal must be of the fairest and simplest composition. Plato. The Republic.
- But Mr. Edison could not create these great and diverse industries and at the same time give requisite attention to litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It does not affect the clear evidence of a very long and very ancient prehistoric separation of the speakers of these three diverse groups of tongues. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In almost as many diverse ways Edison improved upon the telephone. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Edited by Laurence