divergent

divergent
    adj 1: diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent
           opinion"
    2: tending to move apart in different directions [syn:
       {divergent}, {diverging}] [ant: {convergent}]
    

Divergent \Di*ver"gent\, a. [Cf. F. divergent. See {Diverge}.]
   1. Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines
      radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given
      direction; -- opposed to {convergent}.
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   2. (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
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   3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a
      divergent statement.
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   {Divergent series}. (Math.) See {Diverging series}, under
      {Diverging}.
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239 Moby Thesaurus words for "divergent":
      aberrant, abnormal, altered, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous,
      antagonistic, antipathetic, antithetical, apart, assorted, asunder,
      at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
      atypical, backhand, backhanded, better, bipartite, capricious,
      centrifugal, changeable, changed, changing, choppy, circuitous,
      clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasted,
      contrasting, converted, counter, crank, crankish, cranky, cross,
      crotchety, deflectional, degenerate, delta-shaped, deltalike,
      deltoid, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory,
      devious, dichotomous, different, differentiated, differing,
      digressive, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discontinuous,
      discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious,
      disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissident,
      dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished,
      divagational, divaricate, divaricating, diverging, divers, diverse,
      diversified, diversiform, dotty, eccentric, erose, erratic,
      exceptional, excursive, fan-shaped, fanlike, fey, flaky, formless,
      freakish, funny, grating, hardly like, heteroclite, heterogeneous,
      heteromorphic, hostile, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immiscible,
      improved, impulsive, in disagreement, in two, inaccordant,
      incoherent, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant,
      inconstant, indirect, inharmonious, insular, irreconcilable,
      irregular, jagged, jangling, jarring, jerky, kinky, kooky,
      left-handed, maggoty, many, mercurial, metamorphosed, metastasized,
      modified, motley, multifarious, mutable, mutant, negative,
      noncohesive, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, nutty,
      oblique, odd, oddball, off, off-key, offbeat, opposite, out,
      out of accord, out of whack, palmate, palmated, partitioned,
      peculiar, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, qualified,
      queer, quirky, ragged, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, repugnant,
      revived, revolutionary, rough, scarcely like, screwball, screwy,
      separate, separated, several, shapeless, side, sidelong, singular,
      sinister, sinistral, spasmodic, splayed, sporadic, strange, stray,
      straying, subnormal, subversive, transformed, translated,
      transmuted, twisted, unalike, unassociated, unattached, unattended,
      unconformable, uncongenial, unconnected, unconventional, unequable,
      unequal, uneven, unharmonious, unidentical, unjoined, unlike,
      unmatched, unmitigated, unnatural, unorthodox, unregular,
      unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic,
      ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform,
      various, varying, wacky, wandering, wavering, whimsical,
      widely apart, worlds apart, worse