diverse

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

many and different
- "a person of diverse talents"
distinctly dissimilar or unlike
- "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"

Adj

Consisting of different elements; various.
Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.
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.
Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
Differing from what is good or right, or beneficial; bad, evil; harmful.
Having different colours; mottled, variegated.
Causing one to be indecisive between different viewpoints.

Adv

Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).

Verb

Synonym of diversify.
To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
Synonym of diversify.
To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) different or varied, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁
The adjective is derived from Middle English divers, diverse (“different, divergent”), from Anglo-Norman divers, Anglo-Norman divers, and Old French divers (“different; of various kinds”) (modern French divers), and directly from their etymon Latin dīversus (“different, diverse”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of dīvertō (“to divert, turn away”), from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + vertō (“to turn”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). Doublet of divert.
The adverb is derived from Middle English diverse (“differently; at various times”), from divers, diverse (adjective) (see above).

Synonyms

catholic, different, differing, dishomogeneous, dissimilar, divers, diverse, diversely, diversified, eclectic, heterogeneous, liberal, manifold, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multifold, other, sundry, unalike, unlike, variable, varied, various

Antonyms

heterogeneous

Scrabble Score: 11

diverse is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
diverse is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
diverse is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

diverse is a valid Words With Friends word