Diverse

5 definitions found

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

  Diverse \Di"verse\ (?; 277), a. [The same word as divers. See
     {Divers}.]
     1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
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              The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from


              its original import.                  --J. Edwards.
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              Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she.
                                                    --R. Browning.
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     2. Capable of various forms; multiform.
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              Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. --B. Jonson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diverse \Di*verse"\, adv.
     In different directions; diversely.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Diverse \Di*verse"\, v. i.
     To turn aside. [Obs.]
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           The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart.
                                                    --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  diverse
       adj 1: many and different; "tourist offices of divers
              nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: {divers(a)}]
       2: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "diverse parts of the
          country"; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob
          Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and
          the sloth" [syn: {various}]

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

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "diverse":
     assorted, at odds, at variance, contradictory, contrary,
     contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, counter, departing,
     deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing,
     disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete,
     discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant,
     distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, divergent,
     diverging, divers, diversified, diversiform, hardly like,
     heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible,
     incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious,
     irreconcilable, many, many and various, miscellaneous, mixed,
     motley, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiplex, nonuniform,
     odd, of all sorts, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart,
     poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, sundry,
     unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched,
     unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated,
     various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart