disparate

Meanings

• adjective

  1. Consisting of or constituting contrasting or unlike elements or groups.

• adjective

  2. (Of things or situations) widely separated in space, time, or character.

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Pronunciation

1. /dɪˈspæɹət/
   
   
   
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Synonyms

incongruous , mismatched , uncoordinated , incommensurable , different , dissimilar , unalike

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with disparate
pare , square , fare

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Variants

List of all variants of disparate that leads to same result
disparate , disparately , disparateness , disparatenesses

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Forms

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disparate's, disparateness, disparately

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Etymology

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Originally meaning 'dissimilar' or 'unequal' in Latin, disparate comes from the Latin word disparatus, which means 'unequal' or 'unlike'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'disparate' is often used in science to describe different species or groups of organisms.

2. In mathematics, disparate data refers to data that is significantly different from other data in a dataset.

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Related Concepts

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1. contrast: The comparison of two or more things that are different, often used to highlight their differences.

2. opposition: The state of being opposed or in opposition to something, often used to describe two or more things that are in conflict.

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Quotes

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1. The American border with Mexico is among the most economically "disparate" intersections in the world, but the cities on either side of the port looked almost identical—a spread of humble brick and cinder-block homes dotting a blanket of brown hills.

   - Cecilia Balli,{it}Harper's{/it},October 2006

2. First during the nineteen-seventies, but with increasing momentum during the eighties, a loose community of physics researchers had begun to postulate that the "disparate" small particles that we learned about in high-school science class—electrons, for instance—were actually the varied vibrations of tiny open and closed looped strings.

   - Benjamin Wallace-Wells,{it}New Yorker{/it},21 July 2008

3. I made the French lemon cream tart that Greenspan credits to Hermé and got "disparate" reactions. An American friend loved its creaminess and felt it had a comfortingly familiar texture; a British friend … said he missed the traditional sharp, gel-like custard.

   - Tamasin Day-Lewis,{it}Saveur{/it},November 2006

4. The plan, as near as anybody outside Yahoo can make out, is to stitch all those "disparate" organizations into one huge Frankenstein's monster of a search engine that will strike terror into the hearts of all who behold it.

   - Lev Grossman,{it}Time{/it},22 Dec. 2003

5. Like these imagined cities, identical twins are identical only in their blueprints. By the time they are born, they are already "disparate" in countless neurological and physiological ways that mostly we cannot see.

   - Frank J. Sulloway,{it}New York Review{/it},30 Nov. 2006

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Culture

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In literature, disparate elements are often used to create tension and conflict. For example, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the disparate worlds of the wealthy and the poor are juxtaposed to highlight the social divide.

How to Memorize "disparate"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a group of contrasting or unlike elements, such as a rainbow or a group of people from different cultures.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'disparate' with the concept of contrast or difference.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Disparate is different' to remember the meaning of the word.

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