different

Etymology
From, from , from , present active participle of ; see differ.

Broadly ousted the native.

Adjective

 * 1) Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
 * 2) * 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 graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.
 * 1) Various, assorted, diverse.
 * 2) Distinct, separate;.
 * 3) Unlike most others; unusual.
 * 1) Various, assorted, diverse.
 * 2) Distinct, separate;.
 * 3) Unlike most others; unusual.
 * 1) Unlike most others; unusual.
 * 1) Unlike most others; unusual.
 * 1) Unlike most others; unusual.

Usage notes

 * Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective may be construed with one of the prepositions, , and , or with the subordinating conjunction . Pleasure is different from/than/to happiness. It's different than (or from what) I expected. Of these,  is more common in formal registers than in informal ones;  is more common in the US than elsewhere; and  is more common in the UK, in Australia, and in New Zealand than in the US. Style guides often advocate , by analogy with  rather than  or , and proscribe  and.

Synonyms

 * ; See also Thesaurus:different
 * ; See also Thesaurus:assorted
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:separate
 * ,, ; See also Thesaurus:strange

Antonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:normal
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:normal
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:normal
 * , ; See also Thesaurus:normal

Translations

 * American Sign Language: 1@BackFinger-FingerAcross-1@CenterChesthigh-FingerAcross 1@SideChesthigh-1@SideChesthigh
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: مُخْتَلِف, غير
 * Moroccan Arabic: مختلف, مغاير
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: বেলেগ
 * Asturian: diferente
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: башҡа, бүтән, икенсе
 * Belarusian:, адро́зны
 * Bhojpuri: अलग
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏄᏓᎴᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 唔同 唔一樣
 * Hakka: 無共樣, 無共款
 * Hokkien: 無仝款,
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: dihaval
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, anderledes, ulig
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: nesama, malsama
 * Estonian: erinev
 * Faroese: øðrvísi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სხვა, სხვანაირი, განსხვავებული, სხვაგვარი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διάφορος, ἀλλοῖος
 * Haitian Creole: diferan
 * Hawaiian: ʻokoʻa
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: éagsúil, difriúil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: جیا,
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Lao: ອື່ນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: atšķirīgs
 * Lithuanian: skirtingas, kitoks
 * Luxembourgish: verschidden, ongläich, ënnerschiddlech
 * Macedonian: различен, поинаков, друг
 * Malay: beza
 * Malayalam: വ്യത്യസ്ത
 * Maltese: differenti
 * Manchu: ᠠᡩᠠᠯᡳ ᠠᡴᡡ, ᡝᠮᡠ ᠠᡴᡡ
 * Maori: kē
 * Marathi: वेगळे
 * Middle English: different
 * Norman: difféthent
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , ,
 * Nynorsk: forskjellig, ulik, annleis
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: unġelīċ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, не тако́й как, + от,
 * Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealaichte
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: други
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: odlišný,, iný
 * Slovene: drugačen,
 * Southern Altai: башка, экинчизи
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: difrenti
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tocharian B: āläṃ
 * Tok Pisin: narakain
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: الگ
 * Venetian: difarente
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרשיידן, פֿאַרשידן
 * Yucatec Maya: hela’an
 * Zazaki:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: başqa cür
 * Bashkir: башҡа
 * Belarusian: ро́зны,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: anderledes
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: განსხვავებული
 * German:
 * Haitian Creole: diferan
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Lao: ຕ່າງ
 * Macedonian: поинаков
 * Malayalam: വ്യത്യസ്ത
 * Norman: difféthent
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: annleis
 * Old English: unġelīċ
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: разан
 * Roman: razan
 * Slovene: drugačen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: narakain
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: рі́зний,
 * Welsh:
 * Zazaki: zewbi, zobi


 * Esperanto:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * 1)  The different ideal.

Adverb

 * 1) Differently.

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) different

Etymology
From, from , present active participle of ; equivalent to.