Diverse means made of many different kinds mixed together. A diverse group, diverse opinions, diverse in every sense.
It describes the mixture rather than any one member, which is why a single person cannot be diverse however varied their background — a point often got wrong. In ecology, a diverse habitat has many species and is generally more stable. In organisations, diverse is now standard language for workforce composition. Note diversity; and that the Latin means turned different ways.
1adjectivediverseMade of many different kinds mixed together.
“Our class is very diverse, with students from Asia, Africa and South America.”
synonyms: varied, assorted
diverse is a quality of variety.
Also accepted in games: varied
Latin diversus means turned apart, from divertere — dis plus vertere, to turn. Divert, adverse and version come from the same turning.
Proto-Indo-European
*wert-
Anglo-Norman
divers
Middle English
divers
English, today
diverse
Built from
The adjective is derived from Middle English divers, diverse (“different, divergent”), from Anglo-Norman divers, Anglo-Norman divers, and Old French divers (“different; of various kinds”) (modern French divers), and directly from their etymon Latin dīversus (“different, diverse”), an adjective use of the perfect passive participle of dīvertō (“to divert, turn away”), from dī- (variant of dis-) + vertō (“to turn”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wert- (“to rotate; to turn”)). a doublet of divert. The adverb is derived from Middle English diverse (“differently; at various times”), from divers, diverse (see above).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA