say it: dahy-VURS
diverse is an adjective meaning "many and different". It carries 2 recorded senses.
distinctly dissimilar or unlike
“celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan”
“animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diverse 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.