disparate
Other forms: disparately
The trunk of some people's cars may contain items as disparate as vintage records, a tangled garden hose, and possibly a stray hiking boot. Disparate things are very different from each other.
Near synonyms for disparate are unequal and dissimilar. The adjective is derived from the Latin disparātus, from disparāre, meaning "to separate or divide," combining the prefix dis-, "apart," with parāre "to prepare." The word's modern sense of "distinct in kind" likely evolved through its association with the Latin adjective dispar, meaning "unequal" or "different."
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fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind“such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing”“disparate ideas”synonyms:differentunlike in nature, quality, form, or degree
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including markedly dissimilar elements“a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers”synonyms:
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