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   Dif·fer·ent

   /ˈdif(ə)rənt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality: "you can play this game in different ways" Similar dissimilarunalikeunlikenonidenticalcontrastingdivergentdisparatepoles apartincompatiblemismatchedinconsistentopposedat varianceat oddsclashingconflictingcontradictorycontraryinformal:like chalk and cheeserare:contrastiveOpposite similar
   • ▪ novel and unusual: informal "try something deliciously different" Similar unusualout of the ordinaryuncommonunfamiliarrareuniquenovelnewfreshoriginalunprecedentedunconventionalunorthodoxoff-centeratypicalout of the wayspecialsingularremarkablenoteworthyexceptionalextraordinaryoutrageousoutlandishexoticout of the commoninformal:way outoffbeatoff the wallOpposite ordinaryconventional
   • 2. distinct; separate: "on two different occasions" Similar distinctseparateindividualdiscretenonidenticalunrelatedunconnectedunassociatedindependentdisparateOpposite relatedsimilar

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin different- ‘carrying away, differing’, from the verb differre (see differ).

   Derivatives

   • 1. differentness noun

   Scrabble Points: 16

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