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[ adjective ] many and different
Synonyms Examples "tourist offices of divers nationalities" "a person of diverse talents" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)What makes this long and diverse tradition essentially one is that those who have belonged_to it have been profoundly in_earnest about being modern men in a distinctively modern_world . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams , however bizarre their combinations , denies that it is purely a composition of the brain , it must be compounded from views of diverse realities , although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real_life . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)This is brought_out in the common religious ethos that prevails even in the denominationally diverse audiences at many secular semi-public and public occasions in the United_States ; and it is evidenced in the prayers offered , in the frequent religious allusions , and in the confirmation of points on religious grounds . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] distinctly dissimilar or unlike
Synonyms Examples "diverse parts of the country" "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan" "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)The market today for detergent_builders is quite diverse . Related terms |
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