diverge

Other forms of diverge

past tense

diverged·

present participle

diverging·

third person

diverges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diverge

What does diverge mean?

diverge means "move or draw apart". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diverge?

diverge has 2 syllables: di-verge. The stress falls on "verge". In IPA it is /dɪˈvɝdʒ/.

What is another word for diverge?

Close synonyms include deviate, vary, depart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of diverge?

The recorded antonyms are converge, converge, converge.

Is diverge a common word?

diverge is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with diverge?

2 words rhyme with diverge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.