disparate
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- adjective
- /ˈdɪspərɪt/
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dispar
- The team consisted of members with disparate backgrounds, making collaboration challenging.
- disparate elements
- disparate groups
- disparate sources
Maybe they are as disparate as you and I are.
- Maybe they are as disparate as you and I are.
- How do you see the role of leadership in bringing disparate views to compromise together?
- So any of those judgments, we're pulling together disparate information, how do we combine it?
- And what is it that unites all of these disparate foods?
- I've just never seen such disparate reports.
- So, and then the two, the, the these two seemingly disparate ideas involve the dilemma.
- How do we bring all of these disparate warring tribes together in this country?
- Maybe we're getting such giant mixed messages from these fire hoses of information in disparate directions.
- Systemic racism means that we have a system that was designed to to perpetuate racially disparate outcomes and continues to do so.
- You see children start out as a disparate bundle of motivations and emotions sort of warring with one another.
- I will say this, it's another reason that we should attend to gender differences because there's these disparate impacts.
Examples
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The festival celebrated disparate cultures, showcasing food, music, and art from around the world.
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You gain knowledge, life lessons from disparate people and places.
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Maybe they are as disparate as you and I are.
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Of course, almost any social policy is going to have a disparate impact upon some groups.
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The declining terms of trade are caused by disparate forces shaping international demand and supply.
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Western thought tends to attempt to reduce disparate concepts to a unified theory.
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How do we bring all of these disparate warring tribes together in this country?
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What is the thing that all of these disparate examples of virtue have in common that makes them virtues?
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Most of this, as you can see, has been pieced together from several disparate and ongoing investigations.
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The American melting pot has benefited from the influx of many disparate influences, Jewish music among them.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not the same as another person or thing
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3.4
Made of many different kinds
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3.5
Clearly different from others
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6.0
So good or special that nothing else matches it
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3.8
Different in appearance or nature
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4.5
People or things that are very different and have nothing important in common
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3.7
Clearly different from one another in a way you notice
Different in important ways
Very different from each other in important ways
Different from another person or thing in important ways
Not exactly the same in one or more ways
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
disparate = parate (opaque) = dis + par + ate
The word 'disparate' is derived from Latin 'disparatus', but the connection to 'parate' is not transparent in modern English.
Etymology
Disparate comes from Latin parts dis- meaning 'apart' and par meaning 'equal', so it once meant 'not equal'. You can see par in the phrase 'on par with' (meaning equal), so disparate describes things that are very different and hard to compare.