Synonym Study

• 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