divergent
divergent
Definition
di·ver·gent (-vʉr′jənt)
adjective
- diverging
- varying from one another or from a norm; deviating; different
- causing divergence
- not convergent, as a mathematical sequence
Etymology: ML divergens, prp. of divergere
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Synonyms
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modif.
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Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- thinking: In some cases they are young people whose divergent thinking has led them into disruptive behavior.
- viewpoint: And some websites are actually designed to accommodate divergent viewpoints.
- opinion: A leader is expected to provide a way of rallying the divergent opinions together.
- interpretation: Where they spent three days, we have spent three seasons, which perhaps accounts for our divergent interpretations.
- evolution: There are some things that millions of years of divergent evolution can't mask.
- view: Explore with the class the reasons why such divergent views of the same event may have arisen.
Modifying Another Word
- wildly: The top three animals mirrored the global result, which surprisingly didn't demonstrate a wildly divergent set of choices depending on different cultures.
- vastly: The vastly divergent views on the color white can lead to major flower issues.
- radically: We have to therefore accept that our understanding of the meaning of an ideogram evolved by a radically divergent culture may be deficient.
- widely: The Crane brothers ' writing styles are widely divergent.
- apparently: To what degree do you feel these apparently divergent criteria to be in conflict?
- increasingly: The thrust of the Welsh document means that Wales and England will have increasingly divergent systems in future.
Used with adjective complement
- become: The two are not mutually exclusive, but they do strike me as becoming increasingly divergent, and to regressive effect.
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