Meanings
- not comparableIn various ways; diversely.
My caravan served variously as a changing room, office and bedroom.
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Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
2008 October 29, Margalit Fox, “Damiano, 80, directed 'Deep Throat'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2022Synonyms: diversely, manywise, sundrily · Antonyms: invariously
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adverbin diverse ways
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishvarious
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishvariously
Translations
Persian بهطورِ مُتِفاوِت
- بهطورِ مُتِفاوِت (be tor-e motefâvet)Translations
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variously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/variously
“variously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/variously. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “variously,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/variously.
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