Word Meanings - DIVERGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate ; -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Additional info about word: DIVERGE

Etym: 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate ; -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun. 2. To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERGE)

• Bend
• Curve
• deviate
• incline
• tend
• swerve
• diverge
• mold
• persuade
• influence
• bias
• dispose
• direct
• lower
• subordinate to
• lean
• deflect
• bow
• condescend
• yield
• stoop
• submit
• Deflect
• Turn
• divert
• recurve
• Deviate
• Digress
• wander
• err
• sway
• depart
• divaricate
• Separate
• Part
• never
• disjoin
• disunite
• divorce
• tear
• rend
• remove
• disintegrate
• detach
• disconnect
• divide
• dissipate
• scatter
• segregate
• Swerve
• stray
• bend
• trend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVERGE)

• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

Related words: (words related to DIVERGE)

• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.