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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The genus also incorporates an older species, S. longimanus, first described in Yemen in 1903 and previously assigned to a different genus.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
"The Cowleys were different as after years of bargain basement managers we actually went out and did the research and found them," said Whiley.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
“We wanted them to look in different areas so we were scattered all over.”
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
Gilbert also told Stephanopoulos that before she married Busfield, she was aware he had been accused of sexual harassment twice by different women, once in 1994 and another time in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
She looked different than when he’d left her in Fernlight.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
