diverse
adj.adj. made up of many different types of people or things. You use it to describe a group that has a lot of variety.
adj. showing a great deal of variety; composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities. It typically modifies nouns that represent collections or groups.
The city has a diverse population.
Our company is looking for a diverse group of candidates with different backgrounds and skills.
The novel features a stylistically diverse range of narrative voices, shifting from formal historical accounts to intimate, first-person diary entries without warning.
PIE word *dwóh₁ The adjective is derived from Middle English divers, diverse (“different, divergent”), from Anglo-Norman divers, Anglo-Norman divers, and Old French divers (“different; of various kinds”) (modern French divers), and directly from their etymon Latin dīversus (“different, diverse”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of dīvertō (“to divert, turn away”), from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + vertō (“to turn”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). Doublet of divert. The adverb is derived from Middle English diverse (“differently; at various times”), from divers, diverse (adjective) (see above).
From Middle English diversen (“to differ, diverge; to become different, change; to vary; to change or vary (something); to make a distinction, distinguish; to divert”), from Anglo-Norman diverser, Middle French diverser, and Old French diverser (“to alter, change; to differ, diverge; to disagree”), from Late Latin diversare (“to differ”), and then either: * a frequentative form of Latin dīvertere, the present active infinitive of dīvertō (see etymology 1); or * from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + versāre (the present active infinitive of versō (“to alter, change; to keep turning, whirl”), a frequentative form of vertō: see etymology 1). Etymology 2 sense 1 (“synonym of diversify”) became obsolete in the 16th century, and was probably recoined in the 20th century.
Typically placed before the noun it modifies (e.g., 'a diverse team') or used predicatively after a linking verb (e.g., 'the team is diverse').
The city has a lot of diverse.The city is very diverse.Learners sometimes use the adjective 'diverse' where the noun 'diversity' is required.