Disparate

/ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/ · adjective

Meaning

Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
2. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
3. Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
4. (chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

Example Sentences

The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.

The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.

Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.

Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.

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.

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• more disparate
• most disparate
• disparates

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