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Different

adjective

Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree. "Came to a different conclusion" , "Different parts of the country" , "On different sides of the issue" , "This meeting was different from the earlier one" Antonym: same.

Distinctly separate from the first.

Differing from all others; not ordinary. "This new music is certainly different but I don't really like it"

Marked by dissimilarity. Synonyms: dissimilar, unlike. "People are profoundly different" Antonym: like.

Distinct or separate.

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"Different" Quotes from Famous Books

... mate for her in appearance or manner, but Draycott Wilder was marked by the Powers as a successful man. He took very little part in the social side of their married life, and sat in the shadow near the lighted door, listening while his guests talked. The party was in no way different to many others, and it would have ended and been forgotten by all concerned if it had not been for the fact that an unusual occurrence broke it up in dismay. Mrs. Wilder complained of the heat during dinner, and she ...

— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... at me, and by this time the rest of the guard were come up. They too stared, with different exclamations on their lips,—Cowan and Bowman and Tom McChesney and ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... matter and the confessional counsel, there would never have been all this nauseating unpleasantness.—I still say that if the matter were brought before me to-day, I should not be able to give counsel different from what I did. Setting apart the fact that I know I am not as wise as they think they are, I need conceal nothing, especially as it has already been made known. The state of affairs is as follows: Martin ...

— Luther Examined and Reexamined - A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation • W. H. T. Dau

... was different. There was more similarity of tastes between them, though his manner flattered her vanity less than Popple's. She felt the strength of Van Degen's contempt for everything he did not understand or could not buy: that was the only kind of "exclusiveness" that impressed ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... Tuppence felt afraid. She had not feared Whittington, but this woman was different. As if fascinated, she watched the long cruel line of the red curving mouth, and again she felt that sensation of panic pass over her. Her usual self-confidence deserted her. Vaguely she felt that deceiving this woman would be very different to deceiving ...

— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie

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