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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"When light is 'lensed', the different paths the light follows to get to Earth don't all have the same length, so light moving along different paths takes variable amounts of time to reach us."
From Science Daily
Each possibility points to a different story about how planets formed in the early Solar System.
From Science Daily
It turns out, it wasn’t very different at all.
From Los Angeles Times
Home to hundreds of different flowers, the hillsides of Conejo Open Space are covered in yellow monkeyflowers, lupine, California poppies and owl’s clover.
From Los Angeles Times
“Three Studies of Lucian Freud” finds Bacon portraying his fellow artist in a way that has a frenetic film strip quality — he observes Freud from three different angles.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
