disparate
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin disparātus, past participle of disparāre (“to divide”), from dis- (“apart”) + parāre (“to make equal”), from par (“equal”)
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪsp(ə)rət/, ˈdɪsp(ə)rɪt/[1]
- (US) IPA: /ˈdɪsp(ə)rət/
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Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA: /dɪˈspɛrət/
- (US) IPA: /dɪˈspærət/[2]
[edit] Adjective
disparate (comparative more disparate, superlative most disparate)
- Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
- The board of the company was decidedly disparate – no two members from the same social or economic background.
- Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
- 1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error:
- Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.
- 1912, Bertrand Russel, The Philosophy of Bergson:
- 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.
- 1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error:
[edit] Synonyms
- (composed of distinct elements): incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated
- (markedly different): different, dissimilar, unalike
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[edit] References
- ^ Longman Exams Dictionary
- ^ Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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[edit] External links
- disparate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- disparate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Latin disparatus, past participle of disparare ‘to divide’, from dis- ‘apart’ + parare ‘prepare’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /dispaʀat/
[edit] Adjective
disparate (epicene, plural disparates)
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
disparate f.
- Feminine plural form of disparato
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[edit] Verb
disparāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of disparō
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[edit] Noun
disparate m. (plural disparates)