Diverse

/daɪˈvɜːs/ · adjective

Meaning

Consisting of different elements; various..

Definitions by Sense

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. (nonstandard) 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.

Example Sentences

[T]he diverse mone abowt, / Now bryght, now browne, now bent, now full, and now her lyght is owt.

Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

The stage reflected the increasingly diverse Democratic party in which women and people of color are ascendant. Three women – two more than have ever shared a stage during a presidential primary debate and one of whom is Hindu – a Latino former congressman and a black senator participated.

And they gaue them drinke in veſſels of gold, (the veſſels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the ſtate of the king.

[T]h' old Chäos (vvombe of th' Universe) / VVas never made of Members more diverſe.

But it muſt be obſerved concerning moral Inability, in each Kind of it, that the VVord Inability is uſed in a Senſe very diverſe from its original Import. […] The VVord ſignifies only a natural Inability, in the proper Uſe of it; […] It can't be truly ſaid, according to the ordinary Uſe of Language, that a malicious Man, let him be never ſo malicious, can't hold his Hand from ſtriking, […]

‘Our roads are diverse: farewell, love!’ said she. / ‘’Tis duty I abide by: homely sward / And not the rock-rough picturesque for me![’]

Intelligence contemplates all it sees— / Albeit but a point in the infinite / Universe—with but two rays of light, / Which illustrate diversest destinies; […]

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• more diverse
• most diverse
• diuers
• divers
• diverses
• diversing
• diversed

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