Diverging Synonyms and Antonyms

To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wandering
  2. straying
  3. rambling
  4. divagating
  5. digressing
  6. deviating
Be at variance with; be out of line with
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. erring
  2. veering
  3. deviating
  4. swerving
  5. varying
  6. straying
  7. departing
  8. digressing
Be different from; be at odds
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. conflicting
  2. ramifying
  3. forking
  4. dividing
  5. branching
  6. bifurcating
Antonyms:
  1. concurring
  2. agreeing
Tending to move apart in different directions
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. divergent
Antonyms:
  1. convergent
To be different, as in opinion or manner; differ:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swerving

Words Related to Diverging

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Diverging Sentence Examples

  • The country is traversed throughout by the Rajputana railway, with its Malwa branch in the south, and diverging to Agra and Delhi in the north.

  • At Wijk another bifurcation takes place, the broad Lek diverging on the left to join the Maas, while the "Kromme Rijn" to the right is comparatively insignificant.

  • The eye-lens converts diverging pencils into parallels.

  • This great valley—one of the most considerable on the southern side of the Alps—has attracted special attention, in ancient as well as modern times, from its leading to two of the most frequented passes across the great mountain chain—the Great and the Little St Bernard—the former diverging at Aosta, and crossing the main ridges to the north into the valley of the Rhone, the other following a more westerly direction into Savoy.

  • A complex apocentric modification of a kind which we cannot imagine to have been repeated independently, and which is to be designated as uniradial, frequently forms a new centre around which new diverging modifications are produced.

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