I ˈdɪfrənt Completely Somebody/Something Extra Examples Matter Adjective

• american english is significantly different from british english.
• it's slightly different to what i'm used to.
• he's different than the rest.
• it's completely different now than it was a year ago.

different

1. not the same as somebody/something; not like somebody/something else
• OPPOSITE similar
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• American English is significantly different from British English.
• It's slightly different to what I'm used to.
• He's different than the rest.
• It's completely different now than it was a year ago.
• People often give very different accounts of the same event.
• My son's terribly untidy; my daughter's no different.
• The room looks different without the furniture.
• Now he spoke in a different and kinder voice.
• Let's try a different approach.

Extra Examples

• Their customs are very different to ours.
• Attitudes are quite different in England.
• The tune returns in a subtly different guise.
• This is a far different movie from his previous one.
• This school is radically different from most others.
• He's a different proposition from his father—much less tolerant.
• It's very different to what I'm used to.
• We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
• The movie's different than the original book.
• I love playing in jazz bands because the music is so different.
2. separate and individual
• Each chapter deals with a different type of business.
• She offered us five different kinds of cake.
• We're helping society in many different ways.
• The programme was about customs in different parts of the country.
• They are sold in many different colours.
• I looked it up in three different dictionaries.

Extra Examples

• This exquisite little hotel seemed to belong to a different age.
• The three friends are all from different ethnic backgrounds.
• We come from different worlds.
• They use alternating bands of different coloured bricks.
• The same colour may not have the same effect on different types of paper.
3. unusual; not like other people or things
• ‘Did you enjoy the play?’ ‘Well, it was certainly different!’

Extra Examples

• Her methods are different, but no less effective for that.
• a refreshingly different approach to language learning
4. to be very different
• I know which area they live in, but whether I can find their house is a different matter.
• That's a whole different matter.
• I don't mind lizards, but snakes are a different matter.
5. a completely different situation or person from the one previously mentioned
6. to have information or evidence that the opposite is true
• He says he doesn't care about what the critics write, but I know different.
7. to behave in a different way from other people; to have different attitudes or ideas
• She was a gifted and original artist who marched to a different drummer.
8. to have different aims that cannot be achieved together without causing problems
• There are different considerations, often pulling in different directions.
9. to change the way that a situation appears
• What you have told us puts a different complexion on the situation.
• The joke took on a rather serious complexion when the police became involved.
10. to change your opinion about somebody/something or your attitude towards somebody/something
11. to give some information that is different from what you expect or have been told
• These drugs are widely believed to be effective medications. The data, however, tell a different story.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: via Old French from Latin different- ‘carrying away, differing’, from the verb differre, from dis- ‘from, away’ + ferre ‘bring, carry’.