Adjective

(en adjective)

Consisting of many different elements; various.

Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.

* J. Edwards

The word is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.

* R. Browning

Our roads are diverse : farewell, love! said she.

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Capable of various forms; multiform.

* Ben Jonson

Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.

Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.

In the absence of all conflicting evidence.

* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading

*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.

* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73

*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.