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DISPARATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disparate mean?
• DISPARATE (adjective)
The adjective DISPARATE has 2 senses:
1. fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
2. including markedly dissimilar elements
Familiarity information: DISPARATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
Context example:
disparate ideas
Similar:
different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)
Derivation:
disparateness (utter dissimilarity)
disparity (inequality or difference in some respect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Including markedly dissimilar elements
Context example:
a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers
Similar:
heterogeneous; heterogenous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)
Derivation:
disparateness (utter dissimilarity)
disparity (inequality or difference in some respect)
Context examples
Over 30 years ago, scientists proposed a large asteroid impact to explain the disparate elevations of Mars' northern and southern hemispheres; the theory became known as the single impact hypothesis.
(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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