3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Various \Va"ri*ous\, adjective [L. varius. Cf. {Vair}.]
1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various
names; various occupations; various colors.
So many and so various laws are given. --Milton.
A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild.
--Byron.
2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.
A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome. --Dryden.
The names of mixed modes . . . are very various.
--Locke.
3. Variegated; diversified; not monotonous.
A happy rural seat of various view. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
various
adjective
1: of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking
any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are
many and various"; "various experiments have failed to
disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his
behavior" [syn: {assorted}]
2: considered individually; "the respective club members";
"specialists in their several fields"; "the various
reports all agreed" [syn: {respective(a)}, {several(a)}, {various(a)}]
3: 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: {diverse}]
4: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements
are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn:
{versatile}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "various":
assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, certain, changeable,
changing, choppy, composite, contrary, contrasted, contrasting,
departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different,
differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant,
discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly,
disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive,
distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive,
in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, individual, inharmonious,
irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, legion, many,
many and various, mercurial, miscellaneous, more, more than one,
motley, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, mutable,
nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, not singular, numerous,
of all sorts, peculiar, plural, pluralistic, plurative,
poles apart, poles asunder, populous, ragged, rough, separate,
separated, several, some, spasmodic, sporadic, sundry, unalike,
unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox,
unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, upwards of,
variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, varying,
voluminous, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart
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