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diverse
/daɪˈvɝs/
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What does diverse mean?
adjective
- Consisting of different elements; various.
- Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
- 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.
More meanings (9)
adjective
- Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
- Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
- (obsolete) Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful.
- (obsolete) Having different colours; mottled, variegated.
- (obsolete, rare) Causing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints.
verb
- To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
- To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) different or varied, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
- (obsolete, rare) To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.
adverb
- (obsolete) Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).
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IPA pronunciation
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In Egypt also there be diverse languages and diverse letters, and of other manner and condition than there be in other parts.
And yet in the same building adherents of the most diverse religious creeds, eastern and western, met in amity and good fellowship.
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Something, too, must be said of the difficulties inevitably arising from the diverse structure and genius of the Italian and English languages.
The first explorers, he adds, did not always distinguish with sufficient care the vestiges of different epochs, the relics of diverse origins.
The motives of so powerful a persuasion may be diverse, for our fancy does what it will, both with itself and us.