Various

3 definitions found

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

  Various \Va"ri*ous\, a. [L. varius. Cf. {Vair}.]
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     1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various
        names; various occupations; various colors.
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              So many and so various laws are given. --Milton.
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              A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild.
                                                    --Byron.
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     2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.
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              A man so various, that he seemed to be
              Not one, but all mankind's epitome.   --Dryden.
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              The names of mixed modes . . . are very various.
                                                    --Locke.
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     3. Variegated; diversified; not monotonous.
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              A happy rural seat of various view.   --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  various
       adj 1: of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking
              any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are
              many and various"; "various experiments have failed to
              disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his
              behavior" [syn: {assorted}]
       2: considered individually; "the respective club members";
          "specialists in their several fields"; "the various
          reports all agreed" [syn: {respective(a)}, {several(a)}, {various(a)}]
       3: 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: {diverse}]
       4: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements
          are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn:
          {versatile}]

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

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "various":
     assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, certain, changeable,
     changing, choppy, composite, contrary, contrasted, contrasting,
     departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different,
     differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant,
     discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly,
     disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive,
     distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
     diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive,
     in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
     inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, individual, inharmonious,
     irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, legion, many,
     many and various, mercurial, miscellaneous, more, more than one,
     motley, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, mutable,
     nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, not singular, numerous,
     of all sorts, peculiar, plural, pluralistic, plurative,
     poles apart, poles asunder, populous, ragged, rough, separate,
     separated, several, some, spasmodic, sporadic, sundry, unalike,
     unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox,
     unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, upwards of,
     variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, varying,
     voluminous, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart