disparate
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Definition of disparate
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
“The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.”
“The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.”
“Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.”
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adj
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Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
“The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.”
“The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.”
“Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.”
- Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
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Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
“Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.”
“M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.”
noun
- (in-plural)Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Latin parō Latin disparō Latin disparātusder. Middle French desparatbor. ▲ Latin disparātusbor. English disparate First attested in 1586;…
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Latin parō Latin disparō Latin disparātusder. Middle French desparatbor. ▲ Latin disparātusbor. English disparate First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).
Words you can make from disparate
200+ playable · top: ASPIRATED (12 pts)
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11 words7-letter words
37 words- ADAPTER 10 pts
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6-letter words
86 words- ADAPTS 9 pts
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5-letter words
65 words- ADAPT 8 pts
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