DISPARATE
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
• DISPARATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
Context examples:
such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing / disparate ideas
Similar:
different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)
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)
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