English Explanatory Dictionary

diverse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Consisting of different elements; various.
  2. Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
  3. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.
  4. Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
  5. Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
  6. Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful.
  7. Having different colours; mottled, variegated.
  8. Causing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints.
adv
  1. Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).
verb
  1. Synonym of diversify.
  2. To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
  3. To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) different or varied, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
  4. To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.

Pronunciation

/daɪˈvɜːs/ /ˈdaɪ.vɜːs/ /daɪˈvɝs/ /ˈdaɪ.vɝs/ /dɪˈvɝs/ /ˈdəˈvɝs/ En-us-diverse.ogg /dɑeˈvɜːs/ /ˈdɪˈvɜːs/

Word forms

diverse more diverse most diverse diuers divers diverses diversing diversed

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ The adjective is derived from Middle English divers, diverse (“different, divergent”), from Anglo-Norman divers, Anglo-Norman divers, and Old French divers (“different; of various kinds”) (modern French divers), and directly from their etymon Latin dīversus (“different, diverse”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of dīvertō (“to divert, turn away”), from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + vertō (“to turn”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). Doublet of divert. The adverb is derived from Middle English diverse (“differently; at various times”), from divers, diverse (adjective) (see above).

Synonyms

divers manifold catholic dishomogeneous diverse diversified eclectic heterogeneous liberal miscellaneous mixed motley multifarious multifold sundry variable varied various different differing dissimilar other unalike unlike diversely

Antonyms

homogeneous invariable of a piece onefold samely uniform uniformal unmixed unvaried unvarying

Related words

divert diversity

Derived words

antidiverse biodiverse divers diversative diversely diverseness diversitude gender diverse geodiverse hyperdiverse megadiverse microdiverse multidiverse neurodiverse nondiverse overdiverse phytodiverse polydiverse pyrodiverse regiodiverse superdiverse ultradiverse undiverse
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