- 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.”
- a form of a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that arises from a strain of the microorganism when a mutation changes a small part of the strain’s genetic code.
- liable to or displaying variation
- differing from a standard or type
- not constant; fickle
- something that differs from a standard or type
- statistics another word for variate (def. 1)
