Adjective

(en adjective)

Not the same; exhibiting a difference.

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* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, , page 6

Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.

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Various, assorted, diverse.

* 2006 , Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521863575, page 19:

In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.

Distinct, separate; (used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity).

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, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

Unlike most others; unusual.

Adjective

(er)

Straight, constant, without interruption.

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.

the most direct route between two buildings

Straightforward; sincere.

* Shakespeare

Be even and direct with me.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

* John Locke

He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.

* Hallam

a direct and avowed interference with elections

In the line of descent; not collateral.

a descendant in the direct line

(astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.