DIVERSIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diversified mean? 

• DIVERSIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective DIVERSIFIED has 1 sense:

1. having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety

  Familiarity information: DIVERSIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERSIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety

Context example:

diversified investments

Similar:

varied; wide-ranging (widely different)

Also:

heterogeneous; heterogenous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)

Antonym:

undiversified (not diversified)

 Context examples 

With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As the availability of krill has decreased, gentoo penguins have diversified their diets to include fish and squid along with krill.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

As Ediacaran organisms got taller, their body shapes diversified, and some developed stem-like structures to support their height.

(Why life on Earth first got big, University of Cambridge)

The hunters, on the other hand, had stronger and more diversified faces, with hard lines and the marks of the free play of passions.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There were no trees, no bushes, nothing but a gray sea of moss scarcely diversified by gray rocks, gray lakelets, and gray streamlets.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“It has been my lot,” he observed, “to meet, in the diversified panorama of human existence, with an occasional oasis, but never with one so green, so gushing, as the present!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The conclusion of her visit, however, was diversified in a way which she had not at all imagined.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Uncovering a large amount of previously undescribed genetic variation, the study provides new insights into our evolutionary past, and highlights the complexity of the process through which our ancestors diversified, migrated and mixed throughout the world.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

These people were a significant part of human history, they diversified almost at the same time as the ancestors of modern-day Asians and Europeans and it’s likely that at one point they occupied large regions of the northern hemisphere.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)