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[ UK /vˈe‍əɹɪəs/ ]
[ US /ˈvɛɹiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having great diversity or variety
    his vast and versatile erudition
    his various achievements are impressive
  2. of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity
    cited various reasons for his behavior
    assorted sizes
    his disguises are many and various
    assorted sizes
    various experiments have failed to disprove the theory
  3. considered individually
    specialists in their several fields
    the respective club members
    the various reports all agreed
  4. distinctly dissimilar or unlike
    celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan
    animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth

How To Use various In A Sentence

  • By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
  • He moved to Paris in 1767, and after a couple of years had become so popular that he received regular commissions to write two or three operas a year for various theatres.
  • Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
  • Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
  • Between 1906 and 1907, this wide-ranging businessman established steam-powered tramways in various localities across Japan.
  • This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
  • A series of essays from various regular Americans on love, work, and life in the United States, including a housewife and supermarket checker.
  • Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
  • It features advertisements for equipment sales, as well as bands searching for musicians and various other items.
  • The electroplate manufacturers in North America in the late nineteenth century favored various plain square, oblong, and low round baskets and taller ones on a foot, resembling a compote.
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