disparate
distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
Origin of disparate
1Other words for disparate
Other words from disparate
- dis·pa·rate·ly, adverb
- dis·pa·rate·ness, noun
- non·dis·pa·rate, adjective
- non·dis·pa·rate·ly, adverb
- non·dis·pa·rate·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with disparate
- desperate, disparate
Words Nearby disparate
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How to use disparate in a sentence
To take advantage of those disparate elements, you of course have to split them up.
How to separate eggs without the stress or mess | Becky Krystal | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostCombine that with disparate ideologies and metastasizing extremism, and the isolation has led people down some dark alleys.
This odd Super Bowl will bring us together for a day. Let’s not take that for granted. | Jerry Brewer | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostRather, it brings disparate sources of information together on a single workstation.
Local Law Enforcement Quiet on Relationships With ‘Predictive Policing’ Company | Jesse Marx | February 2, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoReliability questionsInterviews with parents and education activists across the city show that the decision of whether to send a child to a classroom during a pandemic is deeply personal and complicated, reflecting disparate family circumstances.
The racial disparities over who is returning to D.C. classrooms puts equity spotlight on reopening plan | Perry Stein | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostThe challenges—a health crisis, a trust crisis, an inequality crisis, a climate crisis, an economic crisis, a democracy crisis—are disparate.
Why We're Launching TIME 2030, a Decade-Long Project on Navigating the Post-COVID World | Edward Felsenthal | January 22, 2021 | Time
Out of a desire to create dialogue between disparate parties, the show avoids this question of “why?”
War Is About More Than Heroes, Martyrs, and Patriots | Nathan Bradley Bethea | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStill other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else | Allen Barra | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Part 3, Dickey turns to two very disparate topics: Russia and his family.
Christopher Dickey on Matters Foreign and Domestic | Christopher Dickey | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir critical colleagues concurred in equally, wildly disparate fashion.
Josh Charles on Life After ‘The Good Wife’ and His Insane Movie ‘Bird People’ | Kevin Fallon | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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?
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksHe has succeeded, according to them, in heaping together an immense amount of information, but it is of the most disparate value.
Catholic Churchmen in Science | James J. Walshdisparate racial elements mingled in the long Southern oval and the Slavonic modelling of brow and cheek-bone.
Tante | Anne Douglas SedgwickIn 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.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher | Henry Jones
British Dictionary definitions for disparate
/ (ˈdɪspərɪt) /
utterly different or distinct in kind
(plural) unlike things or people
Origin of disparate
1Derived forms of disparate
- disparately, adverb
- disparateness, noun
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