English > different: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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