Divergent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Divergent \Di*ver"gent\, a. [Cf. F. divergent. See {Diverge}.]
     1. Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines
        radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given
        direction; -- opposed to {convergent}.
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     2. (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
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     3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a
        divergent statement.
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     {Divergent series}. (Math.) See {Diverging series}, under
        {Diverging}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  divergent
       adj 1: diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent
              opinion"
       2: tending to move apart in different directions [syn: {diverging}]
          [ant: {convergent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  239 Moby Thesaurus words for "divergent":
     aberrant, abnormal, altered, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous,
     antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetical, apart, assorted, asunder,
     at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
     atypical, backhand, backhanded, better, bipartite, capricious,
     centrifugal, changeable, changed, changing, choppy, circuitous,
     clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted,
     contrasting, converted, counter, crank, crankish, cranky, cross,
     crotchety, deflectional, degenerate, delta-shaped, deltalike,
     deltoid, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory,
     devious, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing,
     digressive, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discontinuous,
     discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious,
     disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissident,
     dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished,
     divagational, divaricate, divaricating, diverging, divers, diverse,
     diversified, diversiform, dotty, eccentric, erose, erratic,
     exceptional, excursive, fan-shaped, fanlike, fey, flaky, formless,
     freakish, funny, grating, hardly like, heteroclite, heterogeneous,
     heteromorphic, hostile, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immiscible,
     improved, impulsive, in disagreement, in two, inaccordant,
     incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
     inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, insular, irreconcilable,
     irregular, jagged, jangling, jarring, jerky, kinky, kooky,
     left-handed, maggoty, many, mercurial, metamorphosed, metastasized,
     modified, motley, multifarious, mutable, mutant, negative,
     noncohesive, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nutty,
     oblique, odd, oddball, off, off-key, offbeat, opposite, out,
     out of accord, out of whack, palmate, palmated, partitioned,
     peculiar, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, qualified,
     queer, quirky, ragged, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, repugnant,
     revived, revolutionary, rough, scarcely like, screwball, screwy,
     separate, separated, several, shapeless, side, sidelong, singular,
     sinister, sinistral, spasmodic, splayed, sporadic, strange, stray,
     straying, subnormal, subversive, transformed, translated,
     transmuted, twisted, unalike, unassociated, unattached, unattended,
     unconformable, uncongenial, unconnected, unconventional, unequable,
     unequal, uneven, unharmonious, unidentical, unjoined, unlike,
     unmatched, unmitigated, unnatural, unorthodox, unregular,
     unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic,
     ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform,
     various, varying, wacky, wandering, wavering, whimsical,
     widely apart, worlds apart, worse