different between kaleidoscopic vs disparate

English

Alternative forms

• caleidoscopic

Etymology

From kaleidoscope +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??la?d??sk?p?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??la?d??sk??p?k/

Adjective

kaleidoscopic (comparative more kaleidoscopic, superlative most kaleidoscopic)

1. Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope.
2. (figuratively) Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
   • December 8 2020, David Barnett, "How John Lennon was made into a myth[1]" in BBC Online

     Like scholars picking over the childhood of Buddha, we want to understand how Lennon became the man he did, but there’s also a purity to this portrayal because it presents Lennon before the prism of fame split him into his kaleidoscopic multitude of facets that allowed artists to imprint their own ideas of what John Lennon was or should have been.

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?sp(?)??t/, /?d?sp(?)??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?sp(?)??t/, /d??sp???t/, /d??spæ??t/

Adjective

disparate (comparative more disparate, superlative most disparate)

1. Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
2. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs
3. Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• dispair
• disparately
• disparateness
• disparity

Translations

References

Further reading

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

Noun

disparate (plural disparates)

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

Anagrams

• aspirated

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispar?tus, past participle of to divide, from dis- (“apart”) + to make equal, from par (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.pa.?at/

Adjective

disparate (plural disparates)

1. disparate; incongruous

Further reading

• “disparate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

disparate

1. inflection of disparat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

disparate

1. feminine plural of disparato

Anagrams

• derapasti
• disperata

Latin

Verb

dispar?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dispar?

Portuguese

Etymology

Back-formation from disparatar or from Spanish disparate.

Noun

disparate m (plural disparates)

1. nonsense (meaningless words or actions)

   Synonyms: asneira, dislate

2. Great amount; a lot

Spanish

Etymology

From disparatar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dispa??ate/, [d?is.pa??a.t?e]

Noun

disparate m (plural disparates)

1. nonsense (meaningless words or actions)

   Synonym: dislate

2. a great amount; a lot
3. crazy idea

Further reading

• “disparate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.