Definitions
Very different or made up of unlike elements.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
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