diverse
/daɪˈvɝs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.24 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: of a community, organization, etc.: composed of people with a variety of different demographic characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status; especially, having a sizeable representation of people who are minorities in the community, organization, etc.
adj
Of a person: belonging to a minority group.
adj
Not the same; different, dissimilar, distinct.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he diverse mone abowt, / Now bryght, now browne, now bent, now full, and now her lyght is owt."
- "Eloquence is a great and diverse thing."
- "The stage reflected the increasingly diverse Democratic party in which women and people of color are ascendant. Three women – two more than have ever shared a stage during a presidential primary debate and one of whom is Hindu – a Latino former congressman and a black senator participated."
- "The Board's [i.e., Board of Governors'] goal is to commit to doubling the number of women and diverse members of the Academy by 2020."
- "Here to comment is diverse Congresswoman from Ohio—please welcome representative Marcia Fudge."
- "[Mike] Richards came under fierce criticism since he was formally hired to emcee the legendary quiz show, with some longtime fans saying they believed the producers should have selected a more diverse candidate for the job, such as the actor and presenter LeVar Burton."
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ The adjective is derived from Middle English divers, diverse (“different, divergent”), from Anglo-Norman divers, Anglo-Norman divers, and Old French divers (“different; of various kinds”) (modern French divers), and directly from their etymon Latin dīversus (“different, diverse”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of dīvertō (“to divert, turn away”), from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + vertō (“to turn”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). Doublet of divert. The adverb is derived from Middle English diverse (“differently; at various times”), from divers, diverse (adjective) (see above).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /daɪˈvɝs/
- British English: /daɪˈvɜːs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more diverse (comparative)
most diverse (superlative)
diuers (alternative)
divers (alternative)
diverses (present, singular)
diversing (participle, present)
diversed (participle, past)
diversed (past)