Word Meanings - DIVERGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. See Diverging series, under Diverging. (more info) 1. Receding farther and farther from each

Additional info about word: DIVERGENT

Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. See Diverging series, under Diverging. (more info) 1. Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERGENT)

• Aberrant
• Erratic
• devious
• divergent
• incontinuous
• desultory
• disconnected
• wandering
• idiotic
• inconsistent
• inconsecutive
• abnormal
• exceptional
• Abnormal
• Irregular
• erratic
• peculiar
• unusual
• monstrous
• aberrant
• eccentric
• strange
• Oblique
• Divergent
• diagonal
• lateral
• angular

Related words: (words related to DIVERGENT)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• ECCENTRICITY
  The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• ECCENTRICALLY
  In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• 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
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• ECCENTRICAL
  See ECCENTRIC
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• ABNORMAL
  Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• IDIOTICON
  A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
• DIAGONAL
  Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond , herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built , built by forming
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• INANGULAR
  Not angular.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• SEPTANGULAR
  Heptagonal.
• EQUIANGULAR
  Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.
• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.