different
Usage
What are other ways to say different?
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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“We try not to have a ‘this time it’s different’ mentality,” Ward said of the tech sector generally.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 4, 2025
"You need someone to actively say, 'This year's going to be different'," they say.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024
Her courage to say, ‘I’m going to go do something completely different’ — that’s conviction.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024
“The courts have perused hundreds of pages of documents to arrive at this conclusion. For Parliament simply to say ‘the facts are different’ would be constitutionally really extraordinary,” Sumption told the BBC.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023
I guess I shall have to keep to blacksmithing until I get some money ahead and until that ‘something different’ that you speak of, turns up.”
From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert
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