disparateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French desparat, from Latin disparātus, past participle of disparō (“to divide”), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to make equal”), from par (“equal”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/, /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹɪt/^[1]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/, /dɪˈspɛɹət/, /dɪˈspæɹət/^[2]

形容詞

disparate (comparative more disparate, superlative most disparate)

1. Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

   The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 269:

     The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.

2. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs
3. Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
   • 1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error:

     Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.

   • 1912, Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Bergson:

     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.

同意語

• (composed of distinct elements): incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated
• (markedly different): different, dissimilar, unalike
• (incapable of being compared): incommensurable

関連する語

• dispair
• disparately
• disparateness
• disparity

参照

Further reading

• disparate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• disparate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

名詞

disparate (複数形 disparates)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

アナグラム

• aspirated

Latin

動詞

disparāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of disparō