FromMiddle Englishdifferent, fromOld Frenchdifferent, fromLatindifferēns, present active participle ofdifferō(“I differ”); seediffer.

Broadly ousted the nativeOld Englishungelic (whence modern Englishunalike).

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈdɪfəɹ(ə)nt/,/ˈdɪfɹənt/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈdɪfəɹənt/,/ˈdɪfɹənt/

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• Hyphenation:dif‧fer‧ent

different (comparativemoredifferent,superlativemostdifferent)

2. Not thesame; exhibiting adifference.

   Is your grandpa any better? -Nodifferent. Still ill.

   • 1886,Thomas Hardy,The Mayor of Casterbridge:

     At Elizabeth-Jane mentioning how greatly Lucetta had been jeopardized, he exhibited an agitationdifferent in kind no less than in intensity from any she had seen in him before.

   • 1915, Edward Knobel,Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars – A Revision of the Almagest, page 14 (showing that "to" was used by an Englishman in 1915)

     One interesting feature was remarked by Dr. Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduateddifferently to that used for the latitudes.

   • 1971, William S. Burroughs,The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 6:

     Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people aredifferent from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.

   • 2013 July 19,Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at adifferent time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

4. Various,assorted,diverse.
   • 2006, Delbert S. Elliottet al.,Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context‎^[1], Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page19:

     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 aboutdifferent neighborhood characteristics and activities.

5. Distinct,separate;used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.
   • 2013 May-June,Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, inAmerican Scientist, volume101, number 3, page200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed fourdifferent intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

   Severaldifferent scientists all reached this conclusion at about the same time.

6. Unlike most others;unusual.

   What do you think of my new hairdo? - Well, it'sdifferent.

• (not the same): Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjectivedifferent(“not the same”) may be construed with one of the prepositionsfrom,to, andthan, or with the subordinating conjunctionthan.Pleasure is differentfrom/than/to happiness.It's differentthan(orfrom what) I expected. Of these,from is more common in formal registers than in informal ones;than is more common in the US than elsewhere; andto is more common in the UK, in Australia, and in New Zealand than in the US. Style guides often advocatedifferent from, by analogy withdiffer from rather than*differ than or*differ to, andproscribedifferent than anddifferent to.

• (not the same):other; See alsoThesaurus:different
• (various):sundry; See alsoThesaurus:assorted
• (distinct):apart,distinct; See alsoThesaurus:separate
• (unlike most others):aberrant,deviant,nonstandard; See alsoThesaurus:strange

• (antonym(s) of“not the same”):alike,identical,same,similar
• (antonym(s) of“various”):homogeneous
• (antonym(s) of“distinct”):coherent,indistinct,unified
• (antonym(s) of“unlike most others”):normal,usual; See alsoThesaurus:normal
• (antonym(s) of“all senses”):undifferent

• differ
• difference
• differentiate
• indifferent

• → Jersey Dutch:dääfrent

different (pluraldifferents)

1. (mathematics) Thedifferent ideal.

different (comparativemoredifferent,superlativemostdifferent)

1. Differently.
   • 1843 October 28,The Port Phillip Gazette, Victoria, page 4, column 1:

     [I]f they view it in the same light as I do, they will actdifferent to their previous intentions.

   • 1861 April 13,The Hobart Town Advertiser, page 1, column 4:

     Mr Graves objected to any postponement, and as to the verdict being against the weight of evidence, he was quite sure his Honor would not actdifferent from the Judges, who were slow to interfere with the verdict of a jury.

   • 1954 December 16,The Argus, Melbourne, page29, column 6:

     Cars "actdifferent" on a long trip.

   • 2016 June 15,ABC Premium News, Sydney:

     "Although we all speakdifferent and use different grammar, we have to be more tolerant of each other," he told ABC Brisbane's Katrina Davidson.

• “different”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “different”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

Borrowed fromLatindifferēns.

• IPA^(key):[dɪfəˈʁɛnt]
• Hyphenation:dif‧fe‧rent

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different (strong nominative masculine singulardifferenter,comparativedifferenter,superlativeamdifferentesten)

1. different

• “different” inDuden online
• “different” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

different

1. third-personpluralfutureactiveindicative ofdifferō

• dyfferent

FromOld Frenchdifferent, fromLatindifferēns, present active participle ofdifferō; equivalent todifferren(“to postpone”) +‎-ent.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdifɛrɛnt/,/diˈfɛrɛnt/

different (plural and weak singulardifferente)

1. different

• differently

• English:different
• Scots:different

• “different,adj.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2019-07-31.