Disparate vs. Dissimilar

Disparateadjective

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.’;

Dissimilaradjective

Not similar; unalike; different

Disparateadjective

Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.

Dissimilaradjective

Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.

‘This part very dissimilar to any other.’;

Disparatenoun

Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

Dissimilaradjective

not similar;

‘a group of very dissimilar people’; ‘a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm’; ‘their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own’; ‘took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem’;

Disparateadjective

Unequal; dissimilar; separate.

‘Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them.’;

Dissimilaradjective

not alike or similar;

‘as unalike as two people could be’;

Disparateadjective

Pertaining to two coördinate species or divisions.

Dissimilaradjective

not like; marked by dissimilarity;

‘for twins they are very unlike’; ‘people are profoundly different’;

Disparateadjective

fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind;

‘such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing’; ‘disparate ideas’;

Disparateadjective

including markedly dissimilar elements;

‘a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers’;

Disparateadjective

essentially different in kind; not able to be compared

‘they inhabit disparate worlds of thought’;

Disparateadjective

containing elements very different from one another

‘a culturally disparate country’;

Disparatenoun

things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison.