disparate
fundamentally different in kind
Word origin: From Latin disparatus, separated, from disparare, to divide.
Disparate in a sentence
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The book weaves together disparate fields like physics and poetry.
The exhibition somehow unites disparate art forms, from medieval tapestry to digital animation.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Because the evidence linking the additive to the illness remained blank, regulators declined to issue a ban and instead called for further study.
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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