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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diverse \Di*verse"\, adverb In different directions; diversely.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diverse \Di*verse"\, verb (used without an object) To turn aside. [Obs.]
The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diverse \Di"verse\ (?; 277), adjective [The same word as divers. See {Divers}.]
1. Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. --J. Edwards.
Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. --R. Browning.
2. Capable of various forms; multiform.
Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
diverse
adjective
1: many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: {divers(a)}]
2: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "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" [syn: {various}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "diverse": assorted, at odds, at variance, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, contrastive, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diversified, diversiform, hardly like, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, many, many and various, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiplex, nonuniform, odd, of all sorts, off, offbeat, opposite, out, poles apart, poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, sundry, unalike, unconformable, unequal, unidentical, unlike, unmatched, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart
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