Disparate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disparate \Dis"pa*rate\, a. [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare
     to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.]
     1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
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              Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of


              resemblances in the words expressing them.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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     2. (Logic) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disparate
       adj 1: fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind;
              "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game
              fishing"; "disparate ideas"
       2: including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate
          aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "disparate":
     assorted, asymmetric, at odds, at variance, contrary, contrasted,
     contrasting, counter, departing, deviating, deviative, different,
     differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant,
     discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disproportionate,
     dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divergent,
     diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, hardly like,
     heterogeneous, ill-matched, ill-sorted, in disagreement,
     inaccordant, inadequate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent,
     inconsonant, inharmonious, insufficient, irreconcilable, irregular,
     many, mismatched, motley, multifarious, nonuniform, odd, off,
     offbeat, out, out of proportion, poles apart, poles asunder,
     scarcely like, separate, separated, several, skew, skewed, unalike,
     unconformable, unequal, uneven, unidentical, unlike, unmatched,
     unresembling, unsame, unsimilar, variant, varied, variegated,
     various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart