variant
- tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity; varying: variant shades of color.
- not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind.
- not definitive, as a version of part of a text; different; alternative: a variant reading.
- not universally accepted.
- a person or thing that varies.
- a different spelling, pronunciation, or form of the same word: “Vehemency” is a variant of “vehemence.”
Origin of variant
Related Words for variant
modification, variation, alternative, development, exception, version, result, branch, irregularity, divergent, exceptional, modified, various, varying, derived, differing, spinoffExamples from the Web for variant
Contemporary Examples of variant
All of these will end with some variant of the following: Ms. Pembreteaux laughed, then shrugged.
If these books are indeed Great American Novels—a distinct category, a variant of excellence—they are generally big in every way.
The variant of malaria prevalent in Northern malarial zones like the Po Valley was enfeebling, but not lethal.
These were the expensive Austrian variant: the sleek silver-and-blue cans that cost roughly $1.50 each.
The Dutch variant appeared in 2010 on the VPRO website – a self-described liberal-Protestant network.
Historical Examples of variant
A Prime can be negated, while on the other hand a variant can shift from possible to Logical to Prime.
We're Friends, NowHenry Hasse
The Italian and German techniques were often pursued in variant styles.
John Baptist JacksonJacob Kainen
But fortune is so variant, and the wheel so movable, there is no constant abiding.
Stories of King Arthur and His KnightsU. Waldo Cutler
In the variant of the story in No. 38, the comrades are the hero Martin, a smith, and a tailor.
Russian Fairy TalesW. R. S. Ralston
The variant spellings of Bulloign, Bulloigne and Bullogne have been retained.
Early Theories of TranslationFlora Ross Amos
variant
- liable to or displaying variation
- differing from a standard or typea variant spelling
- obsolete not constant; fickle
- something that differs from a standard or type
- statistics another word for variate (def. 1)
Word Origin for variant
Word Origin and History for variant
late 14c., from Old French variant, from Latin variantem (nominative varians), present participle of variare "to change" (see vary).
1848, from variant (adj.).
variant
(vâr′ē-ənt, văr′-)- Having or exhibiting variation; differing.
- Tending or liable to vary; variable.
- Deviating from a standard, usually by only a slight difference.
- Something that differs in form only slightly from something else.