First attested in 1586; eitherborrowed fromMiddle Frenchdesparat or directly fromLatindisparātus,perfectpassiveparticiple ofdisparō(“to divide”) (see-ate(adjective-forming suffix) and-ate(noun-forming suffix)), fromdis-(“apart”) +parō(“to arrange”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*dwóh₁(“two”) and the root*per-(“carry forth”).
disparate (comparativemoredisparate,superlativemostdisparate)
- Composed ofinherentlydifferent ordistinct elements;incongruous.
- Synonyms:incongruous,mismatched,uncoordinated
The board of the company was decidedlydisparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.
2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page269:The London Transport Museum was established, fromdisparate collections, atCovent Garden in 1980.
2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, inRAIL, number976, page36: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 previouslydisparate routes.
- Essentiallydifferent; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
- Synonyms:different,dissimilar,unalike
- Utterlyunlike; incapable of being compared; having nocommon ground.
- Synonym:incommensurable
1898, John Wesley Powell,Truth and Error:Thendisparate sense impressions come todisparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.
1912, Bertrand Russell,The Philosophy of Bergson:M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into twodisparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.
composed of inherently different elements
- Bulgarian:несравним (bg)(nesravnim),несъизмерим (bg)(nesǎizmerim)
- Czech:nesourodý
- Danish:uensartet,uhomogen
- Dutch:(pleaseverify)duidelijkverschillend ,onsamenhangend (nl)
- Finnish:toisenlainen (fi),hajanainen (fi)
- French:disparate (fr)
- Georgian:განსხვავებული(gansxvavebuli)
- German:disparat (de),verschieden (de),ungleich (de),ungleichartig
- Italian:disparato (it)
- Japanese:異質な (ja)(ishitsu na)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:uensartet
- Portuguese:disperso (pt) m
- Russian:несравнимый (ru)(nesravnimyj),несоизмеримый (ru)(nesoizmerimyj)
- Spanish:dispar (es),heterogéneo (es),variado (es)
- Turkish:apayrı (tr),bambaşka (tr),kıyaslanmaz,kıyaslanamaz
- Ukrainian:різнорідний m(riznoridnyj),розрізнений m(rozriznenyj),відмінний (uk) m(vidminnyj)
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disparate (pluraldisparates)
- (chiefly in theplural) Any of a group ofunequal ordissimilar things.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disparate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “disparate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromLatindisparātus, past participle ofdisparō(“to divide”), fromdis-(“apart”) +parō(“to make equal”), frompar(“equal”).
disparate (pluraldisparates)
- disparate;incongruous
disparate
- inflection ofdisparat:
- strong/mixednominative/accusativefemininesingular
- strongnominative/accusativeplural
- weaknominative all-gendersingular
- weakaccusativefeminine/neutersingular
disparate
- feminineplural ofdisparato
disparāte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofdisparō
Deverbal fromdisparatar orborrowed fromSpanishdisparate.
disparate m (pluraldisparates)
- nonsense(meaningless or stupid words or actions)
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:tolice
Você fala umdisparate, meu amigo.- You speaknonsense, my friend.
- agreatamount; alot
O povo recebia umdisparate de turistas no verão.- The town was deluged with tourists in summer.
- (literally, “The town receiveda great amount of tourists in the summer.”)
disparate
- inflection ofdisparatar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
- IPA(key): /dispaˈɾate/[d̪is.paˈɾa.t̪e]
- Rhymes:-ate
- Syllabification:dis‧pa‧ra‧te
Deverbal fromdisparatar.
disparate m (pluraldisparates)
- nonsense(meaningless words or actions)
- Synonym:dislate
(Can wedate this quote?),Don Quijote:—[…] Y no me amaño a dejarle, por másdisparates que haga.- and I can't leave him, no matter how manymistakes he makes.
2010, Alberto Lema, translated by Iris Cochón,Sidecar, Caballo de Troya (Random House):—[…] Y todo esedisparate sobre la supuesta infinitud de las personas; cuanto más sabes más quieres saber, más sabes que no sabes, etc.; es una estupidez.- And all thathogwash about the supposed infinity of people; the more you know the more you want to know, the more you know that you don't know, etc.; it's all silliness.
- a greatamount; alot
- crazyidea
disparate
- second-personsingularvoseoimperative ofdisparar combined withte
disparate
- inflection ofdisparatar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
