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[ adjective ] fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
Examples "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing" "disparate ideas" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)When Stravinsky shaped his purpose to the shifting scenes of many cultures , many salons , many dialectics , many personalities , he tried to refashion himself into a stylist of many styles , determined by many disparate cultures . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta , as every artist delights to do , wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and - especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair - into the relations of men and women : `` In their relations , she was the giver and he the receiver , nay the demander . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] including markedly dissimilar elements
Examples "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers" Related terms |
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