'Divergent' definitions:
Definition of 'divergent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent opinion"
adjective
Tending to move apart in different directions [syn: divergent, diverging] [ant: convergent]
Definition of 'Divergent'
From: GCIDE
- Divergent \Di*ver"gent\, a. [Cf. F. divergent. See Diverge.]
- 1. Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. [1913 Webster]
- Divergent series. (Math.) See Diverging series, under Diverging. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'divergent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- altered,
- amorphous,
- anomalistic,
- anomalous,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- antithetical,
- apart,
- assorted,
- asunder,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- atypical,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- better,
- bipartite,
- capricious,
- centrifugal,
- changeable,
- changed,
- changing,
- choppy,
- circuitous,
- clashing,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- converted,
- counter,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- deflectional,
- degenerate,
- delta-shaped,
- deltalike,
- deltoid,
- departing,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- dichotomous,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- digressive,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- discontinuous,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- disharmonious,
- disjoined,
- disorderly,
- disparate,
- disproportionate,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissonant,
- distant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- divagational,
- divaricate,
- divaricating,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- erose,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- excursive,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fey,
- flaky,
- formless,
- freakish,
- funny,
- grating,
- hardly like,
- heteroclite,
- heterogeneous,
- heteromorphic,
- hostile,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- immiscible,
- improved,
- impulsive,
- in disagreement,
- in two,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inconstant,
- indirect,
- inharmonious,
- insular,
- irreconcilable,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- jerky,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- left-handed,
- maggoty,
- many,
- mercurial,
- metamorphosed,
- metastasized,
- modified,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- mutable,
- mutant,
- negative,
- noncohesive,
- nonconformist,
- nonstandard,
- nonuniform,
- nutty,
- oblique,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off-key,
- offbeat,
- opposite,
- out,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- palmate,
- palmated,
- partitioned,
- peculiar,
- pluralistic,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- qualified,
- queer,
- quirky,
- ragged,
- rebuilt,
- reformed,
- renewed,
- repugnant,
- revived,
- revolutionary,
- rough,
- scarcely like,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- shapeless,
- side,
- sidelong,
- singular,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- spasmodic,
- splayed,
- sporadic,
- strange,
- stray,
- straying,
- subnormal,
- subversive,
- transformed,
- translated,
- transmuted,
- twisted,
- unalike,
- unassociated,
- unattached,
- unattended,
- unconformable,
- uncongenial,
- unconnected,
- unconventional,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unharmonious,
- unidentical,
- unjoined,
- unlike,
- unmatched,
- unmitigated,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unregular,
- unresembling,
- unsame,
- unsimilar,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- variable,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- widely apart,
- worlds apart,
- worse