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diverse

Pronunciation: /daɪˈvɜːs/

The English word “diverse” has 12 meanings listed here.

adjective

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.
Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
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.

adverb

Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).

verb

To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
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.

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-…

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