Meanings
present singular third person diversifies · participle present diversifying · participle past diversified · past diversified
- transitiveTo make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences.
Months after the incident happened, he did a PBS special in which he talked about the “joys and challenges of birding while Black” and was featured in the Washington Post about his desire to diversify the activity.
2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences.
verbTo make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
More synonyms by meaning
verbvary in order to spread risk or to expand
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchdiversifier
- Englishdiversify
Borrowed from Middle French diversifier, equivalent to diverse + -ify.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian разнообразявам
- разнообразявам (raznoobrazjavam)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Catalan diversificar
- diversificarto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Chinese Mandarin 多樣化 /多样化, 多元化
- 多樣化 /多样化 (duōyànghuà)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- 多元化 (duōyuánhuà)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Finnish monipuolistaa, monipuolistaa
- monipuolistaato make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks
- monipuolistaato make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
French diversifier
- diversifierto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
German diversifizieren, variieren
- diversifizierento make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks
- variierento make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- vielfältig machen no equivalent term in Germanto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- but seeto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Hebrew גיוון
- גיוון (givén)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Hungarian diverzifikál, változatossá tesz
- diverzifikálto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- változatossá teszto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- sokrétűvé teszto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Japanese 多様化する
- 多様化する (tayōka-suru)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Korean 다원화하다, 다양화하다
- 다원화하다 (dawonhwahada)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- 다양화하다 (dayanghwahada)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Māori whakakanorau
- whakakanorauto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Polish dywersyfikować, zdywersyfikować
- dywersyfikowaćto make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks
- zdywersyfikowaćto make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks
- różnicowaćto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- urozmaicaćto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- urozmaicićto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- zróżnicowaćto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Portuguese diversificar
- diversificarto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Romanian diversifica
- diversificato make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Russian диверсифици́ровать, разнообра́зить
- диверсифици́ровать (diversificírovatʹ)to make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks
- разнообра́зить (raznoobrázitʹ)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Spanish diversificar
- diversificarto make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Tagalog ipaiba-iba
- ipaiba-ibato make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
Ukrainian диверсифікува́ти, урізномані́тнювати
- диверсифікува́ти (dyversyfikuváty)to make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks
- урізномані́тнювати (uriznomanítnjuvaty)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
- урізномані́тнити (uriznomanítnyty)to make (something) diverse or various in form or quality
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Cite this entry
diversify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diversify
“diversify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diversify. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diversify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diversify.
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