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comparative more disparate, superlative most disparate
Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous. quotations examples
The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, page 269
Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.
2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 36
Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs examples
Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground. quotations examples
Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.
1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error
M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.
1912, Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Bergson
plural disparates
(chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things. examples