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   Dis·pa·rate

   /ˈdispərət/

   

   adjective

   • 1. essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison: "they inhabit disparate worlds of thought"
   • ▪ containing elements very different from one another: "a culturally disparate country"

   noun

   • 1. things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison. archaic

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin disparatus ‘separated’, from the verb disparare, from dis- ‘apart’ + parare ‘to prepare’; influenced in sense by Latin dispar ‘unequal’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. disparately adverb
   • 2. disparateness noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

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