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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“Well, if you want to try living in a different kind of movie, there’s also trying not to get eaten by the bears and mountain lions.”
From Literature
“This place is probably monitored from ten different angles.”
From Literature
If the Revolutionary Guard remains intact, Iran experts have described several different scenarios for the regime that may emerge.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite some high P/Es, the stories are different for each company.
From MarketWatch
In general, football and we as a dressing room, there is no better place for living together with different passports, different religions than the football club and our group.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
