Divergent
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English
Adjective
Divergent
- Growing further apart; diverging.
- 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
- Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
- 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
- (mathematics) Describing a series which does not converge, i.e., approach a limit.
Adverbs for Divergent
extraordinarily; resolutely; definitely; sharply; interestingly; disputatiously; positively; harshly; discordantly; disagreeably; uncongenially; incompatibly; inaptly; terribly; endlessly; pitiably; painfully; exceptionally; deliberately.
Synonyms for Divergent
deviating, disagreeing, varying, incomparable, contrary, differing, diverse, branching, separating.
Antonyms for Divergent
convergent, similar, parallel, identical.
Related terms
Thesaurus
aberrant, abnormal, altered, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetical, apart, assorted, asunder, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atypical, backhand, backhanded, better, bipartite, capricious, centrifugal, changeable, changed, changing, choppy, circuitous, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, converted, counter, crank, crankish, cranky, cross, crotchety, deflectional, degenerate, delta-shaped, deltalike, deltoid, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing, digressive, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divagational, divaricate, divaricating, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, dotty, eccentric, erose, erratic, exceptional, excursive, fan-shaped, fanlike, fey, flaky, formless, freakish, funny, grating, hardly like, heteroclite, heterogeneous, heteromorphic, hostile, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immiscible, improved, impulsive, in disagreement, in two, inaccordant, incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, insular, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jangling, jarring, jerky, kinky, kooky, left-handed, maggoty, many, mercurial, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, motley, multifarious, mutable, mutant, negative, noncohesive, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nutty, oblique, odd, oddball, off, off-key, offbeat, opposite, out, out of accord, out of whack, palmate, palmated, partitioned, peculiar, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, qualified, queer, quirky, ragged, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, repugnant, revived, revolutionary, rough, scarcely like, screwball, screwy, separate, separated, several, shapeless, side, sidelong, singular, sinister, sinistral, spasmodic, splayed, sporadic, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, subversive, transformed, translated, transmuted, twisted, unalike, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unconformable, uncongenial, unconnected, unconventional, unequable, unequal, uneven, unharmonious, unidentical, unjoined, unlike, unmatched, unmitigated, unnatural, unorthodox, unregular, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, wacky, wandering, wavering, whimsical, widely apart, worlds apart, worse
Etymology
Latin dis-, "apart", and vergere, "to turn", plus the adjectival suffix -ent.
Translations
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /di.vɛʁʒ/
Verb
Divergent
- third-person plural present indicative of diverger
- third-person plural present subjunctive of diverger
Swedish
Adjective
| Inflections of Divergent | ||
| Indefinite singular |
Common | Divergent |
| Neuter | divergent | |
| Definite singular |
Masc. | Divergente |
| All | Divergenta | |
| Plural | Divergenta | |
