diversified

[ dih-vur-suh-fahyd, dahy- ]

adjective

1. distinguished by various forms or by a variety of objects:

   diversified activity.

2. distributed among a judicious variety of types; balanced:

   Investments focused in a single industry, such as energy, are more vulnerable to market volatility than more diversified investments.

3. producing different kinds of goods, crops, etc., or expanded so as to do so:

   He owns a diversified farm, raising livestock, produce, and medicinal herbs.

Other Words From

• non·di·ver·si·fied adjective
• qua·si-di·ver·si·fied adjective
• un·di·ver·si·fied adjective
• well-di·ver·si·fied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of diversified¹

First recorded in 1605–15; diversify + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Plus, bringing in diversified voices, whether it’s in product development, marketing or outreach helps eliminate blindspots when it comes to building inclusive business relationships with clients and customers.

From Digiday

Consumers do not come from the same backgrounds, especially in the highly diversified markets where most reside today.

From Digiday

Today, Cleveland has succeeded in developing a more diversified economy and has gained a national reputation as a center for healthcare and the arts.

From No Straight News

Media owners with diversified revenue lines were best-positioned to weather the coronavirus crisis as it continued into the summer.

From Digiday

If you must build a link profile, then have some diversified anchor texts.

From Search Engine Watch

What you mostly need to worry about is keeping fees low, and getting your allocations diversified.

From The Daily Beast

The company diversified into soft drink and juice production in the late 1960s.

From The Daily Beast

White, black, gay, straight, Christian, Jewish, Muslim: Preppies have diversified quickly.

From The Daily Beast

Woe unto the central banker who diversified in that direction too quickly.

From The Daily Beast

The cuisine is rustic like the land, and its people and the flavors are intense, diversified and explosive.

From The Daily Beast

The combination of these five regions suggests a one-word description of Virginia's topography, namely, diversified.

From Project Gutenberg

The site which it occupied is now a public garden, diversified with shrubbery and flowers.

From Project Gutenberg

With his field-glass, Thurstane examined one after another of the mesas and buttes which diversified this enormous depression.

From Project Gutenberg

The open country was finely diversified, with abundance of wood and water all around, within easy distance of the route.

From Project Gutenberg

Two lines of rails, a waggon shed, and a few telegraph posts, alone diversified the outlook.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• diverse
• varied