different

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Antonyms 1.3.4 Derived terms 1.3.5 Related terms 1.3.6 Translations 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 External links

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

< Middle English < Latin differēns, present active participle of differō (“‘differ’”); see differ.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'dɪf.ə(ɹ).ənt/, /'dɪf.ɹənt/, SAMPA: /"dIf.@(r).@nt/, /"dIf.r@nt/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Hyphenation: dif‧fer‧ent

[edit] Adjective

different (comparative more different, superlative most different)

1. Not the same.

   Mona is different from Eloise.

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:

     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.

2. Various, assorted, diverse.
   • 2006, Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context,^[1] Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521863575, page 19:

     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.

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

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

4. Unlike most others; unusual.

[edit] Usage notes

• (not the same): Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective different (“‘not the same’”) may be construed with one of the prepositions from, to, and than, or with the subordinating conjunction than.

  Pleasure is different from/than/to happiness.

  It's different than (or from what) I expected.

  Of these, from is more common in formal registers than in informal ones, and more common in the U.S. than elsewhere; than is more common in the U.S. than elsewhere; and to is more common in the U.K., in Australia, and in New Zealand than in the U.S. Style guides often advocate from, by analogy with differ from (rather than *differ than or *differ to).

[edit] Synonyms

• distinct

[edit] Antonyms

• alike
• identical
• same
• similar

[edit] Derived terms

• a different ballpark
• different as chalk and cheese
• different drummer
• different ideal
• different light
• different strokes
• horse of a different color
• march to the beat of a different drum

[edit] Related terms

• differ
• difference
• differentiate
• indifferent

[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

different (plural differents)

1. (mathematics) The different ideal.

[edit] External links

• different in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• different in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911