disparate
adjEtymology
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”).
- derived from disparātus
- borrowed from desparat
Definitions
Composed of inherently different or distinct elements
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
Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
Utterly unlike
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.
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Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
The neighborhood
- neighbordispair
- neighbordisparately
- neighbordisparateness
- neighbordisparity
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for disparate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA