adjective
- Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree.
- usage: "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one"
- Distinctly separate from the first.
- usage: "that's another (or different) issue altogether"
- Differing from all others; not ordinary.
- usage: "advertising that strives continually to be different"; "this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it"
- Marked by dissimilarity.
- usage: "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different"
- synonyms: unlike, dissimilar
- Distinct or separate.
- usage: "each interviewed different members of the community"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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