'Disparate' definitions:

Definition of 'disparate'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"
adjective
Including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"

Definition of 'Disparate'

From: GCIDE
  • Disparate \Dis"pa*rate\, a. [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.]
  • 1. Unequal; dissimilar; separate. [1913 Webster]
  • Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Logic) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions. [1913 Webster]