Another word for different
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Adjective
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Another word for different
Modifier
Unlike in nature
Composed of unlike things
Unusual
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- Various emphasizes the number and diversity of kinds, types, etc. various gifts
- Disparate implies essential or thoroughgoing difference, often stressing an absence of any relationship between things disparate concepts
- Dissimilar stresses absence of similarity in appearance, properties, or nature dissimilar techniques
- Distinct , as applied to two or more things, stresses that each has a different identity and is unmistakably separate from the others, whether or not they are similar in kind, class, etc. charged with two distinct offenses
- Divergent suggests a branching off in different directions with an ever-widening distance between, and stresses irreconcilability divergent schools of thought
- Diverse more emphatically sets apart the things referred to, suggesting a conspicuous difference diverse interests
- Different , applied to things that are not alike, implies individuality three different doctors or contrast the twins wore different hats
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