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disparate

dis·pa·rate [ díspərət, di spárrət ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
very different: describes people or things so completely unlike one another that they cannot be compared

[15th century. < Latin disparatus, past participle of disparare "separate" < parare "prepare"]

dis·pa·rate·ly adverb
dis·pa·rate·ness noun
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