different

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/ˈdɪ.fə.ɹənt/

adj 4noun 1adv 1

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound, taste

ADV

very

distinctly, markedly, radically, significantly, strikingly

Her new job felt markedly different from anything she had done before.

completely, entirely, quite, totally | rather, slightly

subtly

The two sisters look subtly different, though most people think they are twins.

materially, qualitatively

refreshingly

The new restaurant served refreshingly different food that we had never tried before.

PREP

from

My sister's taste in music is quite different from mine.

My cooking style is quite different to my mother's approach in the kitchen.

Definitions

adj

Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

— Is your grandpa any better? — No different. Still ill.

At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitation different in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.

Various, assorted, diverse.

In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.

Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.

Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

Several different scientists all reached this conclusion at about the same time.

Unlike most others; unusual.

What do you think of my new hairdo? - Well, it's different.

noun

The different ideal.

adv

Differently.

[I]f they view it in the same light as I do, they will act different to their previous intentions.

Mr Graves objected to any postponement, and as to the verdict being against the weight of evidence, he was quite sure his Honor would not act different from the Judges, who were slow to interfere with the verdict of a jury.

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Synonyms

Antonyms

same

Idioms & Phrases

different strokes

Different touches.

horse of a different color

An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.

"Against physical danger I am willing to offer myself at any time to your Highness . . . . But to walk straight into jail, with my eyes open, that's a horse of a different color."

march to the beat of a different drum

To do things in one's own way regardless of societal norms and conventional expectations.

Siegfried and Roy, two nuts from Germany, are out of their wealthy little minds. They live in a mansion whose ceiling is painted like the Sistine Chapel, with either Siegfried or R

different strokes for different folks

Different people like different things; there's no accounting for taste.

There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one / That won't accept the red one, that won't accept the white one / Different strokes for different folks

same, same, but different

Almost the same, but with some differences.

A day before I'd stepped off a train in Vladivostok in snow and ice, still hung over from the vodka hug-fest with the silver-toothed gangsters, India and Afghanistan just over my s

Example Bank

— Is your grandpa any better? — No different. Still ill.

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At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitation different in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.

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One interesting feature was remarked by Dr. Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.

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[I]f they view it in the same light as I do, they will act different to their previous intentions.

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Cars "act different" on a long trip.

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