different

Definition

Examples

The two branches offer different services to their local customers.

Word Family

Synonyms

• dissimilarnot similar
• distinctrecognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type

Collocations

• Easy completely different things
  describing completely different things (to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'))
• Medium different approaches to the problem
  describing different approaches to the problem (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)
• Hard operate under different regulatory regimes
  to operate under different regulatory regimes, meaning to direct or control; projects, businesses, etc
• Very Hard a totally different ballgame altogether
  referring to a totally different ballgame altogether