Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
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/ˈdɪf.ɹənt.li/
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ˈdifɹəntli
Adverb
In a different way.
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Things turned out differently from what I'd envisaged.
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I was (says Mr. Highmore) forcibly struck with the violence of its pulsation, so much so, that, if it had been differently situated, I should have considered it an aneurism of considerable magnitude.
"You see, gentlemen, I couldn't bear the look of him, there was something in him ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering and irreverent, loathsome, loathsome. But now that he's dead, I feel differently." "How do you mean?" "I don't feel differently, but I wish I hadn't hated him so." "You feel penitent?" "No, not penitent, don't write that. I'm not much good myself; I'm not very beautiful, so I had no right to consider him repulsive. That's what I mean. Write that down, if you like."
Recent research in the field of sociolinguistics and related fields has shown that women and men speak differently.
Adverb
in another and different manner
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very soon you will know differently
she thought otherwise
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there is no way out other than the fire escape