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varied is an adjective meaning "characterized by variety". It carries 3 recorded senses.
characterized by variety
“immigrants' varied ethnic and religious traditions”
“his work is interesting and varied”
widely different
“varied motives prompt people to join a political party”
“varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants”
broken away from sameness or identity or duplication
“her quickly varied answers indicated uncertainty”
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 varied 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.