English > different: 4 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree. |
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Examples | - "took different approaches to the problem"
- "came to a different conclusion"
- "different parts of the country"
- "on different sides of the issue"
- "this meeting was different from the earlier one"
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Attribute of | difference | The quality of being unlike or dissimilar |
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Narrower | antithetic, antithetical | sharply contrasted in character or purpose |
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assorted, various | Of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity |
contrary | Very opposed in nature or character or purpose |
contrasting, contrastive | strikingly different |
diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar | Characterized by opposite extremes / extremes |
disparate | fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind |
distinct, distinguishable | (often followed by 'from') not alike |
divergent | diverging from another or from a standard |
divers, diverse | Many and different |
diverse, various | distinctly dissimilar / dissimilar or unlike |
opposite | altogether different in nature or quality or significance |
several | distinct / distinct and individual |
variant | differing from a norm or standard |
See also | dissimilar | not similar |
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heterogeneous, heterogenous | Consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature |
incompatible | not compatible |
unlike | marked by dissimilarity |
varied | Characterized by variety |
Opposite | same | Closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree |
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Spanish | diferente, distinto |
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Catalan | diferent, distint |
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Nouns | difference | the quality of being unlike or dissimilar |
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Verbs | differ | be different |
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