different between condole vs different

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin condoleo, condolere (“to suffer with another”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??l

Verb

condole (third-person singular simple present condoles, present participle condoling, simple past and past participle condoled)

1. (intransitive) To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy (with someone on something).
   • 1674, William Temple, “To the Countess of Essex upon Her Grief occasioned by the loss of Her only Daughter” in Miscellanea, London: Edward Gellibrand, 1680, pp. 170-171,^[1]

     […] your friends would have cause to rejoyce rather than condole with you […]

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 5,^[2]

     “ […] lady Lucas has been very kind; she walked here on Wednesday morning to condole with us, and offered her services, or any of her daughters, if they could be of use to us.”

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 44,^[3]

     Since the Captain’s visit, she had received a letter from him, and also one from Mrs. Mengan, his married sister, condoling with her on the loss of her baby […]

   • 1900, Stephen Crane, “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen” in Wounds in the Rain: War Stories, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 75,^[4]

     Little Nell condoled and condoled without difficulty. He laid words of gentle sympathy before them, and smothered his own misery behind the face of a reporter of the New York Eclipse.

2. (transitive) To condole with (someone).
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.

   • 1662, John Donne, “A Cabinet of Merry Conceits” in Donne’s Satyr, London: M. Wright, No. 98, p. 64,^[6]

     I not condole the dead, but those who’re living,

     To whom the fear of death, gives cause of grieveing.

   • 1958, Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen), “Babette’s Feast” in Anecdotes of Destiny, London: Michael Joseph,^[7]

     When in early days the sisters had gently condoled her upon her losses, they had been met with that majesty and stoicism of which Monsieur Papin had written. ‘What will you ladies?’ she had answered, shrugging her shoulders, ‘it is Fate.’

3. (transitive) To say in an expression of sympathy.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, p. 252,^[8]

     — So sad to look at his face, Miss Douce condoled.

   • 1940, Marjorie Bowen (as Joseph Shearing), The Crime of Laura Sarelle, Berkley Medallion, 1965, Part One,^[9]

     “You still look faint, my dear,” condoled Mrs. Sylk. “It is the motion and smell of this hideous train. How it rocks! […] ”

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin, Chapter 7, p. 146,^[10]

     ‘There’s always another time,’ I condoled feebly.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To lament, grieve, bemoan (something).
   • 1624, John Donne, “23. Meditation” in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, London: Thomas Jones, p. 599,^[11]

     […] compassion it selfe, comes to no great degree, if wee haue not felt, in some proportion, in our selues, that which wee lament and condole in another.

   • 1680, John Dryden, “The Preface to Ovid’s Epistles” in Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson,^[12]

     If Julia were then Married to Agrippa, why should our Poet make his Petition to Isis, for her safe Delivery, and afterwards, Condole her Miscarriage; which for ought he knew might be by her own Husband?

   • 1703, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 127,^[13]

     […] whether it be natural to the Indians to be thus melancholy, or the effect of their Slavery, I am not certain: But I have always been prone to believe, that they are then only condoling their Misfortunes, the loss of their Country and Liberties […]

   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, Of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton, pp. 69-70,^[14]

     As soon as we had fired, they set up the horridest Yell, or Howling, partly raised by those that were wounded, and partly by those that pitied and condoled the Bodies they saw lye dead, that I never heard any thing like it before or since.

Related terms

• condolence

Translations

Anagrams

• cold one

Latin

Verb

condol?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of condole?

English

Etymology

From Middle English different, from Old French different, from Latin differ?ns, present active participle of differ? (“I differ”); see differ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?f.(?)?.?nt/
• Hyphenation: dif?fer?ent, diffe?rent

Adjective

different (comparative more different, superlative most different)

1. Not the same; exhibiting a difference.
   • 1915, Edward Knobel, Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars – A Revision of the Almagest, page 14 (showing that "to" was used by an Englishman in 1915)

     One interesting feature was remarked by Dr. Peters, viz.: that the instrument used for the longitudes of the original catalogue was graduated differently to that used for the latitudes.

   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 6

     Enter the American tourist. He thinks of himself as a good guy but when he looks in the mirror to shave this good guy he has to admit that "well, other people are different from me and I don't really like them." This makes him feel guilty toward other people.
2. Various, assorted, diverse.
   • 2006, Delbert S. Elliott et al., Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context,^[1] Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 19:

     In any case, poor black respondents living in high-poverty neighborhoods are most likely to view their neighborhood as a single block or block group and to use this definition consistently when asked about different neighborhood characteristics and activities.

3. Distinct, separate; used for emphasis after numbers and other determiners of quantity.

4. Unlike most others; unusual.

Usage notes

• (not the same): Depending on dialect, time period, and register, the adjective different (“not the same”) may be construed with one of the prepositions from, to, and than, or with the subordinating conjunction than.

  Pleasure is different from/than/to happiness.

  It's different than (or from what) I expected.

  Of these, from is more common in formal registers than in informal ones, and more common in the US than elsewhere; than is more common in the US than elsewhere; and to is more common in the UK, in Australia, and in New Zealand than in the US. Style guides often advocate different from, by analogy with differ from rather than *differ than or *differ to, and proscribe different than and different to.

Synonyms

• (not the same): other; See also Thesaurus:different
• (various): sundry; See also Thesaurus:assorted
• (distinct): apart, distinct; See also Thesaurus:separate
• (unlike most others): aberrant, deviant, nonstandard; See also Thesaurus:strange

Antonyms

• (not the same): alike, identical, same, similar
• (various): homogeneous
• (distinct): coherent, indistinct, unified
• (unlike most others): normal, usual; See also Thesaurus:normal
• (all senses): undifferent

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

different (plural differents)

1. (mathematics) The different ideal.

Adverb

different (comparative more different, superlative most different)

1. Differently.

Further reading

• different in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• different in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

German

Etymology

From Latin differ?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?f????nt]
• Hyphenation: dif?fe?rent

Adjective

different (comparative differenter, superlative am differentesten)

1. different

Declension

Further reading

• “different” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

different

1. third-person plural future active indicative of differ?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• dyfferent

Etymology

From Old French different, from Latin differ?ns, present active participle of differ?; equivalent to differren (“to postpone”) +? -ent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dif?r?nt/, /di?f?r?nt/

Adjective

different (plural and weak singular differente)

1. different

Related terms

• differently

Descendants

• English: different
• Scots: different

References

• “different, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-31.