divergent
UK/daɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt//dɪˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
divergent adjective: growing further apart; diverging.
Adjective
divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)
- Growing further apart; diverging.
- 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.1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 47
- Four zebras stood despondent facing divergent directions like an old European film or a '90s band photo.2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck
- (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
- Disagreeing from something given; differing.
- a divergent statement
- Causing divergence of rays.
- a divergent lens
divergent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
divergent in Hindi
- divergent
- अपवर्ती apvartī
divergent in Tamil
- விரிகின்ற, குவியப் பார்வை, விலக்கப் பார்வை
divergent in Urdu
- بھٹکنے والا, کھلنے والا, منحرف, منتشر
divergent in Malayalam
- തമ്മിൽ അകന്നു പോകുന്ന, ഭിന്നമായ, പിരിഞ്ഞു പോകുന്ന, പരസ്പരം യോജിക്കാത്ത
More languagesFewer languages
- divergent in Punjabi
- ਭਿੰਨ
- divergent in Tagalog
- palayo
Examples of divergent in a sentence
- Face approximately 0.20 mm long and subequally wide in middle (strongly divergent ventrally), without setae.
- Naturally, there exist three kinds of optical beams: parallel, divergent, and convergent (see Fig. 1.1.1).
- Note that the ageostrophic wind has both a divergent and a nondivergent part.
Forms of divergent
| comparative | more divergent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most divergent |
Origin of divergent
From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.
Words formed from divergent
Phrases with divergent
Words that rhyme with divergent
- emergent
- assurgent
- resurgent
- convergent
- insurgent
- turgent
- urgent
- abstergent
- detergent
- neurodivergent
- submergent
- surgent
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Questions about divergent
- What does divergent mean?
- Divergent means growing further apart; diverging.
- What is divergent in Hindi?
- Divergent in Hindi is अपवर्ती (apvartī). See Divergent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is divergent?
- Divergent is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce divergent?
- Divergent is pronounced /daɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/ (UK).
Words near divergent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: divergent (page history and authors); अपवर्ती (Hindi) (page history and authors); divergent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); divergent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); divergent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); divergent (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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