disparate

Day 21Level 1

DIH-spuh-ruht

dissimilar

fundamentally different

Part of Speech: adjective

Synonyms:

unlike, different

Antonyms:

alike, similar

Example Sentence:

Before Galileo proved that the earth is round there were several disparate notions among the other scientists of that era.

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