differentadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/ˈdɪf(ə)rənt/,

/ˈdɪf(ə)rn̩t/, U.S.

/ˈdɪf(ə)rənt/

Forms: Middle English diffirent, Middle English dyferent, Middle English dyfferente, Middle English 1600s defferent, Middle English–1500s dyfferent, Middle English–1600s differente, Middle English– different, 1500s–1700s diferent, 1600s difrint; Scottish pre-1700 defferent, pre-1700 diffrent, pre-1700 1700s– different; regional or nonstandard 1900s– diffrarnt.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French different; Latin different-, differēns.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French different (French différent ) (adjective) having divergent attributes, distinct, not of the same kind (a1359), (noun) difference (last quarter of the 14th cent.), disagreement, quarrel (last quarter of the 14th cent.; in noun uses now spelt différend ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin different-, differēns differing, different, in post-classical Latin also eminent, superior (Vulgate), use as adjective of present participle of differre differ v. Compare Spanish diferente (beginning of the 14th cent.), Portuguese diferente (15th cent.), Italian differente (a1306). Compare differing adj.With use as noun compare also classical Latin differēns difference.

A. adj.

†1. Superior, eminent. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > exalted in rank

higheOE

stern of slatec1300

greatc1325

differentc1384

excellentc1400

haught1470

upper1477

elevate?1504

of sort1606

sublime1606

eminenta1616

exalted1623

elevated1665

uppish1797

ranking1847

high-up1848

high-ranking1850

superimposed1861

salt1868

top-ranking1936

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. i. 4 He hath inherited a more different [L. differentius], or excellent, name.

a. Unlike in nature, form, or quality; not of the same kind; dissimilar.Cf. sense A. 3 where the emphasis is on two or more separate people or things of the same type.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective]

othereOE

otherkinseOE

unilicheOE

elseOE

otherways?c1225

diversc1250

diverse1297

unlikea1300

likelessa1325

sundrya1325

contrariousc1340

nothera1375

strangec1380

anothera1382

otherwisea1393

diversed1393

differenta1400

differing?c1400

deparayll1413

disparable1413

disparail1413

dissemblable1413

party?a1439

unlikeningc1450

indifferent1513

distinct1523

repugnant1528

far1531

heterogene?1541

discrepant1556

mislike1570

contrary1576

distincted1577

another-gainesa1586

dispar1587

another gate1594

dislike1596

unresembling1598

heterogeneana1601

anothergates1604

heterogeneal1605

unmatched1606

disparate1608

disparent?1611

differential1618

dissimilar1621

disparated1624

dissimilary1624

heterogeneous1624

unparallel1624

otherguess1632

anotherguise1635

incongenerous1646

anotherguess1650

otherguise1653

distant1654

unresemblant1655

distantial1656

allogeneous1666

distinguished1736

otherguised1768

unsimilar1768

insimilar1801

anotherkins1855

diff1861

distinctive1867

othergate1903

unalike1934

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 90 (MED) To heele boþe þe vlcus & þe festre wiþ medicyns different þat longen to hem boþe.

c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 235 (MED) So were þei chaunged..Lyke vnto bestes kyndely different.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 Largely & in many diffirent maners.

c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 43 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 95 The fader the hole, the eldast son deffer [e] nt, quhiche a labelle; a cressent the secound.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. f. 21^v Persons different in state and condition.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvii. 36 Mate and make could not beget, Such different issues.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xv. 79 Appetite, and Aversions..in different tempers..are different.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 114. ⁋4 Their Manners are very widely different.

1783 Morning Chron. 9 Dec. 2/3 The Directors were in a situation little different; they carried with them all the evils of popular assemblies entrusted with executive power.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xlvii. 609 The weather was foggy and calm on Saturday, and was little different on Sunday.

1869 Harper's Mag. July 276/2 Before we left the tea-table he seemed different.

1873 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 468/1 The two manners, so different apparently, are not so different essentially.

1941 Life 15 Sept. 110/1 (advt.) Things are going to be different around here.

1945 R. B. Black in Jrnl. Amer. Dental Assoc. 32 956/2 The purpose of this paper is to describe an entirely different approach.

1951 Economist 13 Jan. 60/2 Raw materials raise similar, but subtly different problems.

1986 J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? Introd. 6 About motherhood in general, feminists have professed many different opinions.

2008 Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 14/1 There was something different about Barack Obama's stump speech in Maine.

b. With from, to, than, †with, †against, etc., in constructions specifying the two or more things which differ from each other.Different from is the most common and most accepted construction, both in British and North American English. Different than, although often thought of as being used chiefly in North America, has a long history of use in British English.

ΚΠ

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 83^v Vlcerez virulent ar not different [L. non differunt] fro corrosyuez, bot after more and lese.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 325 (MED) Þer were iij sectes of the Iewes in the Iewery, differente from the commune life of other peple.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PP His lyght is moche different and vnlyke to the lyght of the holygoost.

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 257 If..they could write any other language that were different vnto theirs.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 46 This weeke he hath beene..much different from the man he was.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 15 Humane wisdome, different against the divine will, is vaine and contemptible.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. iv. 389 We make vse of them in a quite different manner then we did in the beginning.

1649 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Use of Passions 245 She [sc. hatred] hath this of different with love, that she is much more sensible.

1728 Daily Jrnl. 20 Aug. 1/3 The first 12 came in again..but rode in this Exercise different than in the two former.

1764 St. James's Chron. 10 Apr. 2/1 The Scotch, as a Nation, are remarkably different in Disposition from the English.

1807 G. H. Wilson Eccentric Mirror II. 23 The man whom she had the misfortune to love was fond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself different from the general course of things.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. 37 The party of prisoners lived..with comforts very different to those which were awarded to the poor wretches there.

1916 Seven Arts Dec. 145 The American revolution was fundamentally different from all the revolutions of Europe.

1968 Delaware County (Chester, Pa.) Daily Times 4 June 1/1 This whole year stretching out before me promises to be much different than anything I've ever experienced.

2007 G. A. Bissky Wearing Chinese Glasses x. 198 No other culture is so different from Western culture.

c. Out of the ordinary, unusual; other than is expected; novel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective]

speciala1387

especialc1400

principal1417

peculiarc1449

extraordinaryc1460

enspeciala1533

individual1646

different1856

speciality1879

speshul1900

1856 T. Talmon Edith Hale xxxi. 487 I was not prepared for such an encounter as this, when I had planned a meeting with you, Edith, after what has passed—very different, to say the least.

1912 D. F. Canfield Squirrel Cage xviii. 196 To avoid being ‘queer’ and ‘different’ one had to play a good hand [at Bridge].

1930 Week-end Rev. 7 June 467 Ireland this year! For a ‘different’ holiday, with all the charms of foreign travel and none of the disadvantages.

1965 New Statesman 7 May 712/2 The Mail's bold, different typography.

2001 Art Room Catal. Spring Preview 13/2 We love the designs for being different..and yet not wacky.

3. Distinct; separate; other.Used to emphasize that one is referring to two or more separate people or things of the same type, rather than two or more things which differ in nature, form, or quality (see sense A. 2a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > distinct

distincta1382

alienc1384

sundrya1393

alienate1533

several1533

particular1547

severable1548

different?a1560

distinguished1609

remote1615

discriminate1626

incoincident1636

discriminated1673

allogenous1842

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. sig. P.iv An infinite sorte of differente kyndes might be imagined.

1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland ii. ix. 203 The Biscayns in Spaine, do not hold the Castilians for straingers, but are contented to be ruled by them..albeit they be a different nation.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 138 Civill, and Naturall Law are not different kinds, but different parts of Law.

1679 J. Davies tr. Appian Hist. i. iv. 173 The Pomp lasted two days, for it required a great deal of time for the passing by of so many different People, Ponticks, Armenians,.., and Iberians.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 35. ¶3 At different times he appears as serious as a Judge, and as jocular as a Merry-Andrew.

1765 Club Bk. Tarporley Hunt in R. E. Warburton Hunting Songs (1873) p. xvi Mr. John Barry having sent the Fox Hounds to a different place to what was ordered..was sent to Coventry, but return'd upon giving six bottles of Claret to the Hunt.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. v. 63 To different persons, and in different stages of science.

1862 Cheshire Observer (Chester) 18 Oct. 2/5 There is a great difference in the feeling which prevails in different countries of modern Europe.

1918 Carpenter Jan. 50/1 He..was taken a prisoner on four different occasions during the war.

1968 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 29 Aug. 1/4 Several requests were made by different universities and colleges to store the material for safekeeping.

1995 Independent 29 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/2 I tried a different dermatologist.

2012 J. A. Jance Left for Dead xii. 73 Phil and Christine lived in the same house, but they slept in different bedrooms.

†B. n.

1. A dispute; a disagreement or quarrel; = difference n.¹ 3. Also as a mass noun. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > state or instance of

distancec1300

differencea1387

variancec1425

different?1483

differinga1525

displeasure1550

differ1566

distaste1621

disgusta1665

disaccommodationa1676

differency1707

fallout1725

collision1839

upset1887

contretemps1961

?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. ciii^v The whiche deuyll myght not fynde the manere for to..brynge them to dyscencion and dyfferente.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. x. f. lxxxii^v We praye the that thow vouchesauf to accorde our dyferent so that pees be made betwene vs.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War v. x. f. cxlv^v In such fourme was the allyance made. By meane wherof all the differents that were bitwene the sayd two cyties were extinguished and appeased.

1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Llij Whereupon arose cruell differents betweene the Genooise and the Venetians.

1789 H. Mustafa tr. Ghulam Husain Khan Sëir Mutaqherin II. 494 They had better postpone their differents for such times as would follow afterwards.

2. That which is different or contrary; a difference. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > the opposite of something

contraryc1386

reversec1405

the contraverse1480

nothing less?1520

contrariety1532

negative1532

oppositive1561

different1571

diameter1579

contrariwise1588

opposition1594

counterpoint1599

oppositea1616

other thing1628

antipodes1641

inverse1645

contra1648

contrast1754

converse1786

contrariant1848

antipole1856

obverse1862

antithetic1863

contradictory1874

antipathy-

1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste ii. iii. f. 59 Euery of them is lawfull, verteous, and honeste, groundyng on loue, whiche in greateste differentes [Fr. toutes les choses diferentes]..woorketh euer more a perfecte conformitie, and vnion.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha ii. Epil. 511 To shew things by their contraries and differents.

1617 R. Robinson Art of Pronuntiation sig. B8 They are also three differents, in respect of their three seuerall places of construction.

1890 J. H. Stirling Philos. & Theol. iii. 49 The fairest harmony results from differents.

1920 Christian Cent. 15 Sept. 7/2 It is easier to effect union between any sort of differents and opposites, than between old and new.

C. adv.

= differently adv. N.E.D (1895) remarks: ‘Now only in uneducated use.’

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb]

elseOE

diverselyc1325

diverslyc1384

differentlya1398

another gatea1450

anew1528

unlike1552

different1588

contrary1598

differingly1599

unalike1619

unresemblingly1662

dissimilarlya1771

disparately1881

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 173 They came from countries so farre off, and apparelled verie different [Sp. diferente] from that they do vse, or otherwise haue seene.

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices i. 28 These were the tenents they publickly owned, nor did they act different from what they thought, ordeining Churches, Pulpits, prayers before and after Sermon.

1725 M. Davys Self-rival iv, in Wks. I. 50 Oh! you don't know what you can do, till you try; you will think very different then from what you do now.

1775 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 193 He pronounces English..quite different from other foreigners.

1803 tr. G. C. A. Pigault-Lebrun Monsieur Botte III. 9 They had..acted perfectly different from those parties who [etc.].

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 336 Oh dear, if I was but a little chap in Vendale again..how different I would go on!

1939 Winnipeg Free Press 20 Feb. 3 ‘You speak different to what we do and you drive on the wrong side of the streets,’ Miss Kelman proclaimed.

1977 J. B. Jacobs Stateville 170 ABLE's motto..was ‘Let's do it different from Attica!’

2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. a4 It's impossible to think different in a country where you can't speak freely.

Compounds

C1.

different coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1615 tr. C. van de Passe Garden of Flowers i. sig. C2/1 These two sortes of Checkered daffodills have different coloured flowers [Du. bloemen verscheyden van coleuren].

1834 J. Porter Carême's Royal Parisian Pastrycook 206 The fountain is square, and is composed of confectioner's paste covered with stripes of different coloured sugars.

2013 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 5 Mar. 31 It is recommended to eat a rainbow of different coloured fruits and vegetables each day.

C2.

different-minded adj. and n. (a) adj. (of a person, or two or more people) having a different opinion or opinions (cf. like-minded adj.); (b) n. (with the) different-minded people as a class.

ΚΠ

1655 R. Lawrence Interest Eng. Irish Transplantation 9 This Gentleman is very singular in his opinion, which might a little plead with him for a more charitable opinion of his different-minded friends.

1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) 13 If this..will not reconcile the different-minded to our judgement.

1759 J. Todd Faithful Narr. 22 I happened to be different minded from the greater Part of my Brethren of the Ordination Council in this Matter.

1868 Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 25 Jan. 1/1 The election of a new and different-minded Congress cannot restore an impeached President or Judge to office.

1903 J. Volz tr. F. Nietzsche Dawn of Day iv. 255 To esteem the like-minded more highly than the different-minded.

1982 M. D. Ahmed in C. Caldarola Relig. & Societies viii. 264 The drafters of the first Constitution [of Pakistan] invented a broad formula which on the surface seemed to satisfy the different-minded groups.

2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. a1 A different-minded generation of young voters animated by the recession and social issues.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	different
释义	differentadj.n.adv. Brit. /ˈdɪf(ə)rənt/, /ˈdɪf(ə)rn̩t/, U.S. /ˈdɪf(ə)rənt/ Forms: Middle English diffirent, Middle English dyferent, Middle English dyfferente, Middle English 1600s defferent, Middle English–1500s dyfferent, Middle English–1600s differente, Middle English– different, 1500s–1700s diferent, 1600s difrint; Scottish pre-1700 defferent, pre-1700 diffrent, pre-1700 1700s– different; regional or nonstandard 1900s– diffrarnt. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French different; Latin different-, differēns. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French different (French différent ) (adjective) having divergent attributes, distinct, not of the same kind (a1359), (noun) difference (last quarter of the 14th cent.), disagreement, quarrel (last quarter of the 14th cent.; in noun uses now spelt différend ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin different-, differēns differing, different, in post-classical Latin also eminent, superior (Vulgate), use as adjective of present participle of differre differ v. Compare Spanish diferente (beginning of the 14th cent.), Portuguese diferente (15th cent.), Italian differente (a1306). Compare differing adj.With use as noun compare also classical Latin differēns difference. A. adj. †1. Superior, eminent. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > exalted in rank higheOE stern of slatec1300 greatc1325 differentc1384 excellentc1400 haught1470 upper1477 elevate?1504 of sort1606 sublime1606 eminenta1616 exalted1623 elevated1665 uppish1797 ranking1847 high-up1848 high-ranking1850 superimposed1861 salt1868 top-ranking1936 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. i. 4 He hath inherited a more different [L. differentius], or excellent, name. 2. a. Unlike in nature, form, or quality; not of the same kind; dissimilar.Cf. sense A. 3 where the emphasis is on two or more separate people or things of the same type. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] othereOE otherkinseOE unilicheOE elseOE otherways?c1225 diversc1250 diverse1297 unlikea1300 likelessa1325 sundrya1325 contrariousc1340 nothera1375 strangec1380 anothera1382 otherwisea1393 diversed1393 differenta1400 differing?c1400 deparayll1413 disparable1413 disparail1413 dissemblable1413 party?a1439 unlikeningc1450 indifferent1513 distinct1523 repugnant1528 far1531 heterogene?1541 discrepant1556 mislike1570 contrary1576 distincted1577 another-gainesa1586 dispar1587 another gate1594 dislike1596 unresembling1598 heterogeneana1601 anothergates1604 heterogeneal1605 unmatched1606 disparate1608 disparent?1611 differential1618 dissimilar1621 disparated1624 dissimilary1624 heterogeneous1624 unparallel1624 otherguess1632 anotherguise1635 incongenerous1646 anotherguess1650 otherguise1653 distant1654 unresemblant1655 distantial1656 allogeneous1666 distinguished1736 otherguised1768 unsimilar1768 insimilar1801 anotherkins1855 diff1861 distinctive1867 othergate1903 unalike1934 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 90 (MED) To heele boþe þe vlcus & þe festre wiþ medicyns different þat longen to hem boþe. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 235 (MED) So were þei chaunged..Lyke vnto bestes kyndely different. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 Largely & in many diffirent maners. c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 43 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 95 The fader the hole, the eldast son deffer [e] nt, quhiche a labelle; a cressent the secound. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. f. 21^v Persons different in state and condition. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvii. 36 Mate and make could not beget, Such different issues. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xv. 79 Appetite, and Aversions..in different tempers..are different. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 114. ⁋4 Their Manners are very widely different. 1783 Morning Chron. 9 Dec. 2/3 The Directors were in a situation little different; they carried with them all the evils of popular assemblies entrusted with executive power. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xlvii. 609 The weather was foggy and calm on Saturday, and was little different on Sunday. 1869 Harper's Mag. July 276/2 Before we left the tea-table he seemed different. 1873 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 468/1 The two manners, so different apparently, are not so different essentially. 1941 Life 15 Sept. 110/1 (advt.) Things are going to be different around here. 1945 R. B. Black in Jrnl. Amer. Dental Assoc. 32 956/2 The purpose of this paper is to describe an entirely different approach. 1951 Economist 13 Jan. 60/2 Raw materials raise similar, but subtly different problems. 1986 J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? Introd. 6 About motherhood in general, feminists have professed many different opinions. 2008 Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 14/1 There was something different about Barack Obama's stump speech in Maine. b. With from, to, than, †with, †against, etc., in constructions specifying the two or more things which differ from each other.Different from is the most common and most accepted construction, both in British and North American English. Different than, although often thought of as being used chiefly in North America, has a long history of use in British English. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 83^v Vlcerez virulent ar not different [L. non differunt] fro corrosyuez, bot after more and lese. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 325 (MED) Þer were iij sectes of the Iewes in the Iewery, differente from the commune life of other peple. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PP His lyght is moche different and vnlyke to the lyght of the holygoost. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 257 If..they could write any other language that were different vnto theirs. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 46 This weeke he hath beene..much different from the man he was. View more context for this quotation 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 15 Humane wisdome, different against the divine will, is vaine and contemptible. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. iv. 389 We make vse of them in a quite different manner then we did in the beginning. 1649 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Use of Passions 245 She [sc. hatred] hath this of different with love, that she is much more sensible. 1728 Daily Jrnl. 20 Aug. 1/3 The first 12 came in again..but rode in this Exercise different than in the two former. 1764 St. James's Chron. 10 Apr. 2/1 The Scotch, as a Nation, are remarkably different in Disposition from the English. 1807 G. H. Wilson Eccentric Mirror II. 23 The man whom she had the misfortune to love was fond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself different from the general course of things. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. 37 The party of prisoners lived..with comforts very different to those which were awarded to the poor wretches there. 1916 Seven Arts Dec. 145 The American revolution was fundamentally different from all the revolutions of Europe. 1968 Delaware County (Chester, Pa.) Daily Times 4 June 1/1 This whole year stretching out before me promises to be much different than anything I've ever experienced. 2007 G. A. Bissky Wearing Chinese Glasses x. 198 No other culture is so different from Western culture. c. Out of the ordinary, unusual; other than is expected; novel. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] speciala1387 especialc1400 principal1417 peculiarc1449 extraordinaryc1460 enspeciala1533 individual1646 different1856 speciality1879 speshul1900 1856 T. Talmon Edith Hale xxxi. 487 I was not prepared for such an encounter as this, when I had planned a meeting with you, Edith, after what has passed—very different, to say the least. 1912 D. F. Canfield Squirrel Cage xviii. 196 To avoid being ‘queer’ and ‘different’ one had to play a good hand [at Bridge]. 1930 Week-end Rev. 7 June 467 Ireland this year! For a ‘different’ holiday, with all the charms of foreign travel and none of the disadvantages. 1965 New Statesman 7 May 712/2 The Mail's bold, different typography. 2001 Art Room Catal. Spring Preview 13/2 We love the designs for being different..and yet not wacky. 3. Distinct; separate; other.Used to emphasize that one is referring to two or more separate people or things of the same type, rather than two or more things which differ in nature, form, or quality (see sense A. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > distinct distincta1382 alienc1384 sundrya1393 alienate1533 several1533 particular1547 severable1548 different?a1560 distinguished1609 remote1615 discriminate1626 incoincident1636 discriminated1673 allogenous1842 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. sig. P.iv An infinite sorte of differente kyndes might be imagined. 1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland ii. ix. 203 The Biscayns in Spaine, do not hold the Castilians for straingers, but are contented to be ruled by them..albeit they be a different nation. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 138 Civill, and Naturall Law are not different kinds, but different parts of Law. 1679 J. Davies tr. Appian Hist. i. iv. 173 The Pomp lasted two days, for it required a great deal of time for the passing by of so many different People, Ponticks, Armenians,.., and Iberians. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 35. ¶3 At different times he appears as serious as a Judge, and as jocular as a Merry-Andrew. 1765 Club Bk. Tarporley Hunt in R. E. Warburton Hunting Songs (1873) p. xvi Mr. John Barry having sent the Fox Hounds to a different place to what was ordered..was sent to Coventry, but return'd upon giving six bottles of Claret to the Hunt. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. v. 63 To different persons, and in different stages of science. 1862 Cheshire Observer (Chester) 18 Oct. 2/5 There is a great difference in the feeling which prevails in different countries of modern Europe. 1918 Carpenter Jan. 50/1 He..was taken a prisoner on four different occasions during the war. 1968 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 29 Aug. 1/4 Several requests were made by different universities and colleges to store the material for safekeeping. 1995 Independent 29 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/2 I tried a different dermatologist. 2012 J. A. Jance Left for Dead xii. 73 Phil and Christine lived in the same house, but they slept in different bedrooms. †B. n. 1. A dispute; a disagreement or quarrel; = difference n.¹ 3. Also as a mass noun. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > state or instance of distancec1300 differencea1387 variancec1425 different?1483 differinga1525 displeasure1550 differ1566 distaste1621 disgusta1665 disaccommodationa1676 differency1707 fallout1725 collision1839 upset1887 contretemps1961 ?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. ciii^v The whiche deuyll myght not fynde the manere for to..brynge them to dyscencion and dyfferente. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. x. f. lxxxii^v We praye the that thow vouchesauf to accorde our dyferent so that pees be made betwene vs. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War v. x. f. cxlv^v In such fourme was the allyance made. By meane wherof all the differents that were bitwene the sayd two cyties were extinguished and appeased. 1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Llij Whereupon arose cruell differents betweene the Genooise and the Venetians. 1789 H. Mustafa tr. Ghulam Husain Khan Sëir Mutaqherin II. 494 They had better postpone their differents for such times as would follow afterwards. 2. That which is different or contrary; a difference. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > the opposite of something contraryc1386 reversec1405 the contraverse1480 nothing less?1520 contrariety1532 negative1532 oppositive1561 different1571 diameter1579 contrariwise1588 opposition1594 counterpoint1599 oppositea1616 other thing1628 antipodes1641 inverse1645 contra1648 contrast1754 converse1786 contrariant1848 antipole1856 obverse1862 antithetic1863 contradictory1874 antipathy- 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste ii. iii. f. 59 Euery of them is lawfull, verteous, and honeste, groundyng on loue, whiche in greateste differentes [Fr. toutes les choses diferentes]..woorketh euer more a perfecte conformitie, and vnion. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha ii. Epil. 511 To shew things by their contraries and differents. 1617 R. Robinson Art of Pronuntiation sig. B8 They are also three differents, in respect of their three seuerall places of construction. 1890 J. H. Stirling Philos. & Theol. iii. 49 The fairest harmony results from differents. 1920 Christian Cent. 15 Sept. 7/2 It is easier to effect union between any sort of differents and opposites, than between old and new. C. adv. = differently adv. N.E.D (1895) remarks: ‘Now only in uneducated use.’ ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb] elseOE diverselyc1325 diverslyc1384 differentlya1398 another gatea1450 anew1528 unlike1552 different1588 contrary1598 differingly1599 unalike1619 unresemblingly1662 dissimilarlya1771 disparately1881 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 173 They came from countries so farre off, and apparelled verie different [Sp. diferente] from that they do vse, or otherwise haue seene. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices i. 28 These were the tenents they publickly owned, nor did they act different from what they thought, ordeining Churches, Pulpits, prayers before and after Sermon. 1725 M. Davys Self-rival iv, in Wks. I. 50 Oh! you don't know what you can do, till you try; you will think very different then from what you do now. 1775 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 193 He pronounces English..quite different from other foreigners. 1803 tr. G. C. A. Pigault-Lebrun Monsieur Botte III. 9 They had..acted perfectly different from those parties who [etc.]. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 336 Oh dear, if I was but a little chap in Vendale again..how different I would go on! 1939 Winnipeg Free Press 20 Feb. 3 ‘You speak different to what we do and you drive on the wrong side of the streets,’ Miss Kelman proclaimed. 1977 J. B. Jacobs Stateville 170 ABLE's motto..was ‘Let's do it different from Attica!’ 2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. a4 It's impossible to think different in a country where you can't speak freely. Compounds C1. different coloured adj. ΚΠ 1615 tr. C. van de Passe Garden of Flowers i. sig. C2/1 These two sortes of Checkered daffodills have different coloured flowers [Du. bloemen verscheyden van coleuren]. 1834 J. Porter Carême's Royal Parisian Pastrycook 206 The fountain is square, and is composed of confectioner's paste covered with stripes of different coloured sugars. 2013 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 5 Mar. 31 It is recommended to eat a rainbow of different coloured fruits and vegetables each day. C2. different-minded adj. and n. (a) adj. (of a person, or two or more people) having a different opinion or opinions (cf. like-minded adj.); (b) n. (with the) different-minded people as a class. ΚΠ 1655 R. Lawrence Interest Eng. Irish Transplantation 9 This Gentleman is very singular in his opinion, which might a little plead with him for a more charitable opinion of his different-minded friends. 1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) 13 If this..will not reconcile the different-minded to our judgement. 1759 J. Todd Faithful Narr. 22 I happened to be different minded from the greater Part of my Brethren of the Ordination Council in this Matter. 1868 Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 25 Jan. 1/1 The election of a new and different-minded Congress cannot restore an impeached President or Judge to office. 1903 J. Volz tr. F. Nietzsche Dawn of Day iv. 255 To esteem the like-minded more highly than the different-minded. 1982 M. D. Ahmed in C. Caldarola Relig. & Societies viii. 264 The drafters of the first Constitution [of Pakistan] invented a broad formula which on the surface seemed to satisfy the different-minded groups. 2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. a1 A different-minded generation of young voters animated by the recession and social issues. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.adv.c1384
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