disparate
fundamentally different in kind
Word origin: From Latin disparatus, separated, from disparare, to divide.
Disparate in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing disparate in a sentence.
The book weaves together disparate fields like physics and poetry.
The exhibition somehow unites disparate art forms, from medieval tapestry to digital animation.
Using “disparate” well
Disparate means fundamentally different in kind, pairing with dissimilar and divergent. It stresses essential unlikeness, not merely a slight difference in degree. Do not confuse it with desperate, an unrelated homophone.
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