Antonyms of verb diverge

3 of 4 senses of diverge

Sense 1
diverge -- (move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here")
       Antonym of converge (Sense 3)
      => converge -- (move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star")

Sense 2
diverge -- (have no limits as a mathematical series)
       Antonym of converge (Sense 1)
      => converge, meet -- (be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point")
       Antonym of converge (Sense 2)
      => converge -- (approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit)

Sense 3
diverge -- (extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged")
       Antonym of converge (Sense 1)
      => converge, meet -- (be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb diverge

4 senses of diverge

Sense 1
diverge -- (move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here")
       => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 2
diverge -- (have no limits as a mathematical series)
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Sense 3
diverge -- (extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged")

Sense 4
deviate, vary, diverge, depart -- (be at variance with; be out of line with)
       => differ -- (be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect")

Antonyms of adj diverging

1 sense of diverging

Sense 1
divergent (vs. convergent), diverging -- (tending to move apart in different directions)


Similarity of adj diverging

1 sense of diverging

Sense 1
divergent (vs. convergent), diverging -- (tending to move apart in different directions)
       => branching -- (resembling the branches of a tree)
       => radiating (prenominal) -- (diverging from a common point)
          Also See-> oblique#1

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