different
unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
How often you will meet it
Rank 552 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 35,174 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.017% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- unlike in nature or quality or form or degree took different approaches to the problemcame to a different conclusion
- distinctly separate from the first that's another (or different) issue altogether
- differing from all others; not ordinary advertising that strives continually to be differentthis new music is certainly different but I don't really like it
- distinct or separate each interviewed different members of the community
different in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I can't even make out the different actors.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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It is better not to be different from one’s fellows.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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It might contain so many different things--even a kit of unholy tools, jimmies and things!
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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In the case of a number of the poems, different editions of the poets' works contain different readings.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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Fagging at Harrow--which varies slightly in different houses--is hard or easy according to the taste and fancy of the fag's master.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1