divergent

From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/, /dɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/, /daɪˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɑɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt

divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)

1. Growing further apart; diverging.
   • 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 47:

     Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.

   • 2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:

     Four zebras stood despondent facing divergent directions like an old European film or a '90s band photo.

2. (mathematics) (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
3. Disagreeing from something given; differing.

   a divergent statement

4. Causing divergence of rays.

   a divergent lens

• diverge
• converge

• ridge vent

Borrowed from Latin dīvergentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.βərˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.vərˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.veɾˈd͡ʒent]

divergent m or f (masculine and feminine plural divergents)

1. divergent

• divergir

• “divergent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “divergent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “divergent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “divergent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin dīvergēns, the active present participle of the Latin verb that also underlies the borrowed Dutch divergeren.

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divergent (comparative divergenter, superlative divergentst)

1. divergent

   Antonym: convergent

   divergente reeks ― divergent series

• Indonesian: divergen

From Latin dīvergentem.

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/

divergent (feminine divergente, masculine plural divergents, feminine plural divergentes)

1. divergent

• diverger

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁʒ/

divergent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of diverger

• “divergent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin divergens.

• IPA^(key): [ˌdivɛʁˈɡɛnt]
• Hyphenation: di‧ver‧gent

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divergent (strong nominative masculine singular divergenter, comparative divergenter, superlative am divergentesten)

1. divergent

• “divergent” in Duden online
• “divergent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

dīvergent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dīvergō

Borrowed from French divergent.

divergent m or n (feminine singular divergentă, masculine plural divergenți, feminine and neuter plural divergente)

1. divergent

divergent

1. divergent

   Antonym: konvergent