different

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unlike in nature or quality or form or degree

   took different approaches to the problem

2. 2
   adj

   distinctly separate from the first

   that's another (or different) issue altogether

3. 3
   adj

   distinct or separate

   each interviewed different members of the community

4. 4
   adj

   Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

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

5. 5
   adj

   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.

6. 6
   adj

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   Unlike most others; unusual.

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

8. 8
   adv

   Differently.

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

Etymology

From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“to differ”). See also differ. Supplanted native Old English ungelic (whence modern English unalike).