1
[ adjective ] diverging from another or from a standard

Synonyms

differing

Examples

"a divergent opinion"

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Recently I was struck anew by the divergent approaches , when in the course of one afternoon and evening I listened to no fewer than ten different performances .

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

For it had turned_out , by a further paradox of Cubism , that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging .

Related terms

different

2
[ adjective ] tending to move apart in different directions

Synonyms

diverging

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