diverse
//daɪˈvɜːs//
formalForms
- Comparative
- more diverse
- Superlative
- most diverse
- present (v1)
- diverse
- past (v2)
- diversed
- past participle (v3)
- diversed
- present participle
- diversing
- 3rd person singular
- diverses
Definitions
1.Consisting of different elements; various.
2.Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
- Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.
3.Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.
4.Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
- This is what collectivism forgot, the freedom to be diverse, and the conception of each diverse individual being inherently of equal value and having open-ended potential for contribution.
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
1.Synonym of diversify.
- Nature does have a way of altering and diversing wetlands, streams and portholes through a period of a long range of years.
- The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3056
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁