different between unlike vs divergent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?la?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unl??, un?el?? (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungal?kaz; surface analysis: un- +? like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).

Adjective

unlike (comparative more unlike, superlative most unlike)

1. Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance.
2. Unequal.
3. (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.

Synonyms

• (not like): See also Thesaurus:different

Translations

Preposition

unlike

1. Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
2. In contrast with; as opposed to.
3. Not typical of one's character or personality.

Translations

Noun

unlike (plural unlikes)

1. Something that is not like something else; something different.
   • 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science

     If the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes.

Etymology 2

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- +? like.

Verb

unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)

1. To dislike.
2. (Internet) To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites.
   • 2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:

     Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.

   • 2010 June 25, "TheKorn" (username), "Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet:

     My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.

Noun

unlike (plural unlikes)

1. (Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.
   • 2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans (page 552)

     Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.

   • 2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling (page 13)

     On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]

Anagrams

• ukelin

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??v??d??nt/, /d??v??d??nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v?d??nt/

Adjective

divergent (comparative more divergent, superlative most divergent)

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

2. (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
3. Disagreeing from something given; differing.

   a divergent statement

4. Causing divergence of rays.

   a divergent lens

Related terms

• diverge
• converge

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ridge vent

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?verg?ns.

Adjective

divergent (masculine and feminine plural divergents)

1. divergent

Related terms

• divergir

Further reading

• “divergent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “divergent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

French

Etymology 1

From Latin d?verg?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v??.???/

Adjective

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

1. divergent

Related terms

• diverger

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v???/

Verb

divergent

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

Further reading

• “divergent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From Latin divergens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?div?????nt]
• Hyphenation: di?ver?gent

Adjective

divergent (comparative divergenter, superlative am divergentesten)

1. divergent

Declension

Further reading

• “divergent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

d?vergent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of d?verge?

Romanian

Etymology

From French divergent

Adjective

divergent m or n (feminine singular divergent?, masculine plural divergen?i, feminine and neuter plural divergente)

1. divergent

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

divergent

1. divergent

   Antonym: konvergent

Declension