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disparate
[ dis-per-it, dih-spar- ]
adjective
- distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar:
disparate ideas.
Synonyms: unlike, incommensurable, divergent, separate
disparate
/ ˈdɪspərɪt /
adjective
- utterly different or distinct in kind
noun
- plural unlike things or people
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Derived Forms
- ˈdisparately, adverb
- ˈdisparateness, noun
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Other Words From
- dispa·rate·ly adverb
- dispa·rate·ness noun
- non·dispa·rate adjective
- non·dispa·rate·ly adverb
- non·dispa·rate·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disparate1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disparate1
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Example Sentences
Out of a desire to create dialogue between disparate parties, the show avoids this question of “why?”
Still other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources.
In Part 3, Dickey turns to two very disparate topics: Russia and his family.
Their critical colleagues concurred in equally, wildly disparate fashion.
The so-called moderate opposition—made up of hundreds of disparate groups—is often immoderate and rarely cohesive.
How, indeed, could a lasting concord be maintained by two such disparate characters?
He has succeeded, according to them, in heaping together an immense amount of information, but it is of the most disparate value.
Disparate racial elements mingled in the long Southern oval and the Slavonic modelling of brow and cheek-bone.
In other words the sensations fall into groups which are wholly disparate and are hence termed species.
Thus, the life of man regarded as a whole is, in its last essence, a combination of utterly disparate elements.
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