'Diverse' definitions:
Definition of 'diverse'
From: WordNet
adjective
Many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: divers(a), diverse]
adjective
Distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various]
Definition of 'Diverse'
From: GCIDE
- Diverse \Di"verse\ (?; 277), a. [The same word as divers. See Divers.]
- 1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. [1913 Webster]
- The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. --J. Edwards. [1913 Webster]
- Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. --R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Capable of various forms; multiform. [1913 Webster]
- Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Diverse'
From: GCIDE
- Diverse \Di*verse"\, adv. In different directions; diversely. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Diverse'
From: GCIDE
- Diverse \Di*verse"\, v. i. To turn aside. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'diverse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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