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disparate
disparate [ díspərət ]


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']

disparately adverb
disparateness noun
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