different
pronunciation
How to pronounce different in British English:
UK [ˈdɪfrənt]
How to pronounce different in American English:
US [ˈdɪfrənt]
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- Adjective:
- unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
- distinctly separate from the first
- differing from all others; not ordinary
- not like; marked by dissimilarity
- distinct or separate
Word Origin
- different
- different: [14] English acquired different via Old French different from different-, the present participial stem of Latin differre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and ferre ‘carry’ (related to English bear). Latin differre had two distinct strands of meaning that sprang from the original literal ‘carry apart, scatter, disperse, separate’: one was ‘put off, delay’, from which English gets defer; the other ‘become or be unlike’, whence English differ [14] and different. The derived indifferent [14] originally meant ‘not differentiating or discriminating’.=> bear, dilatory
- different (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French different (14c.), from Latin differentem (nominative differens) "differing, different," present participle of differre "to set apart" (see differ). Colloquial sense of "special" attested by 1912. Related: Differently.
Example
- 1. They also sometimes have different motives .
- 2. Partnersfirst is a different kind of credit-card company .
- 3. And they are very different men .
- 4. But an abortion seems different .
- 5. No different from anywhere else .