disparate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
    • such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing
    • disparate ideas
  2. adjective satellite including markedly dissimilar elements
    • a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers

WordNet

Dis"pa*rate adjective
Etymology
L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.
Definitions
  1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
    Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. Coleridge.
  2. (Logic) Pertaining to two coördinate species or divisions.

Webster 1913