Divergent

Adjective

 * 1) Growing further apart; diverging.
 * 2) * 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
 * Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
 * 1)  Describing a series which does not converge, i.e., approach a limit.

Adverbs for Divergent
extraordinarily; resolutely; definitely; sharply; interestingly; disputatiously; positively; harshly; discordantly; disagreeably; uncongenially; incompatibly; inaptly; terribly; endlessly; pitiably; painfully; exceptionally; deliberately.

Synonyms for Divergent
deviating, disagreeing, varying, incomparable, contrary, differing, diverse, branching, separating.

Antonyms for Divergent
convergent, similar, parallel, identical.

Related terms

 * diverge
 * converge

Thesaurus
aberrant, abnormal, altered, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetical, apart, assorted, asunder, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, atypical, backhand, backhanded, better, bipartite, capricious, centrifugal, changeable, changed, changing, choppy, circuitous, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, converted, counter, crank, crankish, cranky, cross, crotchety, deflectional, degenerate, delta-shaped, deltalike, deltoid, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing, digressive, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divagational, divaricate, divaricating, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, dotty, eccentric, erose, erratic, exceptional, excursive, fan-shaped, fanlike, fey, flaky, formless, freakish, funny, grating, hardly like, heteroclite, heterogeneous, heteromorphic, hostile, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immiscible, improved, impulsive, in disagreement, in two, inaccordant, incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, insular, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jangling, jarring, jerky, kinky, kooky, left-handed, maggoty, many, mercurial, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, motley, multifarious, mutable, mutant, negative, noncohesive, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nutty, oblique, odd, oddball, off, off-key, offbeat, opposite, out, out of accord, out of whack, palmate, palmated, partitioned, peculiar, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, qualified, queer, quirky, ragged, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, repugnant, revived, revolutionary, rough, scarcely like, screwball, screwy, separate, separated, several, shapeless, side, sidelong, singular, sinister, sinistral, spasmodic, splayed, sporadic, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, subversive, transformed, translated, transmuted, twisted, unalike, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unconformable, uncongenial, unconnected, unconventional, unequable, unequal, uneven, unharmonious, unidentical, unjoined, unlike, unmatched, unmitigated, unnatural, unorthodox, unregular, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, wacky, wandering, wavering, whimsical, widely apart, worlds apart, worse

Etymology
Latin dis-, "apart", and vergere, "to turn", plus the adjectival suffix -ent.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отклоняващ се
 * Finnish: erilleen menevä, erkaantuva


 * Hungarian: széthúzó


 * Bulgarian: разходящ
 * Finnish: hajaantuva
 * Greek: αποκλίνουσα (σειρά)


 * Hungarian:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * ridge vent

Adjective

 * 1) divergent

Antonyms

 * konvergent