disparateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/, /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/, /dɪˈspæɹət/, /dɪˈspɛɹət/
• 韻: (米国発音) -æɹət, (米国発音) -ɛɹət

形容詞

disparate (comparative more disparate, superlative most disparate)

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

   Synonyms: incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated

   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.

   • 2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 36:

     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.

2. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.

   Synonyms: different, dissimilar, unalike

3. Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.

   Synonym: incommensurable

   • 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.

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名詞

disparate (plural disparates)

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

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Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disparate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “disparate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• aspirated