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- 1 Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
"— Is your grandpa any better? — No different. Still ill."
- 2 Various, assorted, diverse.
"In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities."
- 3 Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
"Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads."
- 4 Unlike most others; unusual.
"What do you think of my new hairdo? - Well, it's different."
- 1 differing from all others; not ordinary wordnet
- 2 unlike in nature or quality or form or degree wordnet
- 3 distinctly separate from the first wordnet
- 4 distinct or separate wordnet
- 1 Differently.
"[I]f they view it in the same light as I do, they will act different to their previous intentions."
- 1 The different ideal.
Etymology
From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“I differ”). See also differ. Supplanted native Old English ungelic (whence modern English unalike).
From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“I differ”). See also differ. Supplanted native Old English ungelic (whence modern English unalike).
From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“I differ”). See also differ. Supplanted native Old English ungelic (whence modern English unalike).
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