say it: DIF-ur-uhnt
different is an adjective meaning "unlike in nature or quality or form or degree". It carries 4 recorded senses.
unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
“took different approaches to the problem”
“came to a different conclusion”
“different parts of the country”
“on different sides of the issue”
“this meeting was different from the earlier one”
differing from all others; not ordinary
“advertising that strives continually to be different”
“this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for different come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.