disparate
/ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.26 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
noun
Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
Example Sentences
- "The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background."
- "The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980."
- "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 previously disparate routes."
- "Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc."
- "M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Latin parō Latin disparō Latin disparātusder. Middle French desparatbor. ▲ Latin disparātusbor. English disparate First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *per-, disparātus, *dwóh₁
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/
- British English: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/