diverse

Consisting of different elements; various.

Capable of or having various forms in different situations or at different times; multiform.

[T]he diverse mone abowt, / Now bryght, now browne, now bent, now full, and now her lyght is owt.

Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

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, havin

The stage reflected the increasingly diverse Democratic party in which women and people of color are ascendant. Three women – two more than have ever shared a stage during a presidential primary debate and one of whom is Hindu – a Latino former congressman and a black senator participated.

Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.

And they gaue them drinke in veſſels of gold, (the veſſels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the ſtate of the king.

[T]h' old Chäos (vvombe of th' Universe) / VVas never made of Members more diverſe.

Of a person: belonging to a minority group.

The Board's [i.e., Board of Governors'] goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020.

Here to comment is diverse Congresswoman from Ohio—please welcome representative Marcia Fudge.

Synonym of diversely (“in different directions”).

[The river in the Garden of Eden] novv divided into four main Streams, / Runs divers, vvandring many a famous Realme / And Country vvhereof here needs no account, […]

The Gourd, / And thirſty Cucumer, vvhen they perceive / Th' approaching Olive, vvith Reſentment fly / Her fatty Fibres, and vvith Tendrils creep / Diverſe, deteſting Contact; […]

Synonym of diversify.

I Dyuerſe[,] I make difference⸝ Ie diuerſifie, prime coniu.

In the Eocene, when the Old World and American mammal fauna were more nearly related, we have a hypothetical genus, Archipithecus, from which diversed a branch giving rise to the platyrhine apes, the families Cebidæ and Hapalidæ.

Synonym of diversify.

The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.

To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.

Then each to other vvell affectionate, / Friendſhip profeſſed vvith vnfained hart, / The Redcroſſe knight diuerſt, but forth rode Britomart.

We regret that the gentleman diversed so widely from the subject before the committee.