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disparate adjective [ ˈdɪsp(ə)rət ]

• essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.
• "they inhabit disparate worlds of thought"
Similar: contrasting, different, differing, dissimilar, unlike, unalike, poles apart, varying, various, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, unrelated, unconnected, distinct, separate, divergent, divers, myriad, contrastive,
Opposite: homogeneous,

disparate noun

• things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison.
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin disparatus ‘separated’, from the verb disparare, from dis- ‘apart’ + parare ‘to prepare’; influenced in sense by Latin dispar ‘unequal’.


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