differentadjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/A1 not the same:
She seems to wear something different every day.
He's different now that he's been to college.
We're reading a different book this week.
Emily is very/completely/entirely different from her sister.
Emily and her sister are completely different.
There are many different types/kinds of bacteria.
informal used when you think someone or something is unusual or shows bad judgment:
What do I think of your purple shoes? Well, they're certainly different.
More examples
- Australia has its own cultural identity, which is very different from that of Britain.
- You turn this dial to find a different radio station.
- We sell 32 different flavours of ice cream.
- Eggs are sorted into different sizes by a machine.
- The word 'flight' has two different meanings : a plane journey, and the act of running away.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Different and difference
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- a whole new ballgame idiom
- a world of difference idiom
- alternative
- another
- clash
- contrary
- differential
- distinctive
- distorted
- diverge
- divergence
- divers
- divide
- permutation
- refreshing
- several
- step
- sundry
- tangential
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Unique and unusual
differently
adverb uk/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt.li/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt.li/
Examples
- If I could turn the clock back and do things differently, I would.
- If I'd had children I might have looked at things differently.
- As students of chemistry know, even small rearrangements of a molecule's structure can produce a compound that acts differently.
- The legal system operates very differently in the US and Britain.
- These figures work out differently each time I add them.
B1
We want to do things differently.
Are girls treated differently?