variant

Speech parts

1. variant - Noun

2. variant - Adjective

3. variant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.

Changeable; changing; fickle.

Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

form version adaptation modification strain mutation alteration discrepancy edition variety class unlike other various different
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Antonyms

allied like same similar base uniform
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Hypernyms

difference departure deviation divergence

Hyponyms

fork model

Related terms

vary variation variance

Phrases with the word

carp variant printed variant single nucleotide variant british variant english variant double mutation variant

Anagrams

nativar

Examples

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. Hans-Hermann Hoppe

People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. Eugen Drewermann

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable. George Washington

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. Michael Gambon

Disobedience without civility, discipline, discrimination, non-violence, is certain destruction. Disobedience combined with love is the living water of life. Civil disobedience is a beautiful variant to signify growth, it is not discordance which spells death. Mahatma Gandhi

Fortune is variant. Romanian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Varian variance variancy variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease variant reading variantly