variousEnglishOxford English Thesaurusvarious adjective 1 there are various kinds of evidence for this: diverse, different, differing, varied, varying, a variety of, dissimilar, disparate, assorted, mixed, sundry, miscellaneous, variegated, heterogeneous; literary divers. 2 he needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he had collected: numerous, many, several, copious, abundant, profuse, countless, innumerable, large number of, multiplicity of.various Oxford Dictionary of English