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diverse

adj
/daɪˈvɜːs/UK/daɪˈvɝs/US/dɑeˈvɜːs/

Etymology

From Middle English diversen (“to differ, diverge; to become different, change; to vary; to change or vary (something); to make a distinction, distinguish; to divert”), from Anglo-Norman diverser, Middle French diverser, and Old French diverser (“to alter, change; to differ, diverge; to disagree”), from Late Latin diversare (“to differ”), and then either: * a frequentative form of Latin dīvertere, the present active infinitive of dīvertō (see etymology 1); or * from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + versāre (the present active infinitive of versō (“to alter, change; to keep turning, whirl”), a frequentative form of vertō: see etymology 1). Etymology 2 sense 1 (“synonym of diversify”) became obsolete in the 16th century, and was probably recoined in the 20th century.

  1. inherited from diverse — “differently; at various times”
  2. derived from *wert-✻ — “to rotate; to turn”
  3. derived from dīversus — “different, diverse”
  4. derived from divers — “different; of various kinds”
  5. derived from divers
  6. inherited from divers

Definitions

  1. Consisting of different elements

    Consisting of different elements; various.

  2. Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times

    Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.

    • [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.

  3. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word

    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. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Not the same

      Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.

      • 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.

    2. Of a person

      Of a person: belonging to a minority group.

      • The Board's [i.e., Board of Governors'] goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.
      • Here to comment is diverse Congresswoman from Ohio—please welcome representative Marcia Fudge.

    3. Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial

      Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful.

    4. Having different colours

      Having different colours; mottled, variegated.

    5. Causing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints.

      • So many pathes, ſo many turnings ſeene, / That vvhich of them to take, in diuerſe doubt they been.

    6. Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).

      • [The river in the Garden of Eden] novv divided into four main Streams, / Runs divers, vvandring many a famous Realme / And Country vvhereof here needs no account, […]
      • The Gourd, / And thirſty Cucumer, vvhen they perceive / Th' approaching Olive, vvith Reſentment fly / Her fatty Fibres, and vvith Tendrils creep / Diverſe, deteſting Contact; […]
      • To ſeize his papers, Curl, vvas next thy care; / His papers light, fly diverſe, toſt in air: […]

    7. Synonym of diversify.

      • I Dyuerſe[,] I make difference⸝ Ie diuerſifie, prime coniu.
      • In the Eocene, when the Old World and American mammal fauna were more nearly related, we have a hypothetical genus, Archipithecus, from which diversed a branch giving rise to the platyrhine apes, the families Cebidæ and Hapalidæ.
      • Nature does have a way of altering and diversing wetlands, streams and portholes through a period of a long range of years.

    8. To go a different route or way from someone else

      To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.

      • Then each to other vvell affectionate, / Friendſhip profeſſed vvith vnfained hart, / The Redcroſſe knight diuerſt, but forth rode Britomart.
      • We regret that the gentleman diversed so widely from the subject before the committee.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at diverse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01diverse02orientation03determination04character05complex06composite07mixture

A definitional loop anchored at diverse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at diverse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA