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dy-VURS/daɪˈvɜːs/

Diverse means including many types: a diverse workforce; diverse views. Diversity is already in the dictionary. Varied is close; mixed can be looser. Do not call two similar items diverse. UK organisations publish diversity and inclusion reports. Diverse from is wrong — use different from; diverse as an adjective stands before the noun or after be.

Meaning

Including many different types of people or things.

Examples

• “The city has a diverse population and several community languages.”
• “A diverse shortlist was a condition of the funding, not an optional extra.”

Good to know

a diverse + noun; be diverse. Noun: diversity. Close: varied. Not for two similar things. Pattern: different from, not diverse from.

Near in meaning

varied

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