disparate
Plural: disparates
Adjective Satellite
- fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
- "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"
- "disparate ideas"
- including markedly dissimilar elements
- "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"
Adj
- Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
- Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
- Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
Noun
- Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
Examples
- The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
different, dissimilar, incommensurable, incongruous, mismatched, unalike, uncoordinated
Scrabble Score: 12
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disparate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary