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diverse
adjective as in different; various
Example Sentences
“The fact is that parts of Altadena, predominantly white, they got the warning,” he said, but the more racially diverse part of Altadena was issued evacuation orders much later.
The new executive order insists that recruiting diverse applicants is "diminishing the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination."
One repeated theme is adding multifamily housing to make the communities more economically diverse and help alleviate the region’s affordable housing shortage.
Our country has never attempted to build the civic connective tissue that is required for us to function well as a whole diverse culture and democratic society.
The World Health Organisation warns that, "Rigid gender norms also negatively affect people with diverse gender identities, who often face violence, stigma and discrimination as a result, including in healthcare settings."
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When To Use
What are other ways to say diverse?
The adjective diverse, in describing ideas or opinions, suggests degrees of difference that may be at odds or challenging to reconcile: diverse views on how the area should be zoned. Various stresses the multiplicity of sorts or instances of a thing or a class of things: various sorts of seaweed; busy with various duties. Different emphasizes separateness and dissimilarity: two different (or differing) versions of the same story. Distinct implies a uniqueness that is clear and unmistakable: plans similar in objective but distinct in method.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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