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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind;
- Example: "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"
- Example: "disparate ideas"

2. including markedly dissimilar elements;
- Example: "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disparate \Dis"pa*rate\, a. [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare
   to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.]
   1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
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            Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of
            resemblances in the words expressing them.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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   2. (Logic) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disparate
    adj 1: fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind;
           "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game
           fishing"; "disparate ideas"
    2: including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate
       aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"