Disparate

Quick meaning: Disparate is an adjective meaning Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

Meaning

Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• disparates

Synonyms for disparate

Depending on context, synonyms include incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated, different, dissimilar, unalike.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include different, heterogeneous, inconsistent, incompatible, lopsided, dissimilar.

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