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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 kindplay

2. including markedly dissimilar elementsplay

  Familiarity information: DISPARATE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISPARATE (adjective)


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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