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Disparate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISPARATE, a. [L., equal.] Unequal; unlike; dissimilar.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"
2: including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English desparat, from Latin disparatus, past participle of disparare to separate, from dis- + parare to prepare — more at pare Date: 15th century 1. containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements 2. markedly distinct in quality or character Synonyms: see different • disparately adverb • disparateness noun • disparity noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. essentially different in kind; without comparison or relation. --n. (in pl.) things so unlike that there is no basis for their comparison. Derivatives: disparately adv. disparateness n. Etymology: L disparatus separated (as DIS-, paratus past part. of parare prepare), infl. in sense by L dispar unequal

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disparate Dis"pa*rate, a. [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.] 1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate. Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. --Coleridge. 2. (Logic) Pertaining to two co["o]rdinate species or divisions.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Disparate things are clearly different from each other in quality or type. (FORMAL) Scientists are trying to pull together disparate ideas in astronomy... ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A disparate thing is made up of very different elements. (FORMAL) ...a very disparate nation, with enormous regional differences. = diverse ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

assorted, asymmetric, at odds, at variance, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, hardly like, heterogeneous, ill-matched, ill-sorted, in disagreement, inaccordant, inadequate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, insufficient, irreconcilable, irregular, many, mismatched, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd, off, offbeat, out, out of proportion, poles apart, poles asunder, scarcely like, separate, separated, several, skew, skewed, unalike, unconformable, unequal, uneven, unidentical, unlike, unmatched, unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart