different
Usage
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The adjective different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story. Distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method. Diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties.
Example Sentences
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Jablansky said potential customers have created more than 10 million different configurations of a Slate truck online.
From Los Angeles Times
"It was the guttural voices of the keeners, there's only three recordings and all three are just so poignant and they're so different," she said.
From BBC
Gwen described the relationships with these pupils as "fun" and "something different".
From BBC
He said Maccabi fans had just pulled down one flag the night before the Amsterdam game and that some of West Midlands Police's evidence "conflated" different things.
From BBC
The country has a medley of different Soviet and Western systems that have to be integrated into a single system.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
