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Assorted vs Disparate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between assorted and disparate

is that assorted is comprised of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous while disparate is composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

As a verb assorted

is past tense of assort.

As a noun disparate is

any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

assorted

English

Verb

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  • (assort)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Comprised of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.

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    disparate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
    • The board of the company was decidedly disparate – no two members from the same social or economic background.
  • Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
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    • Synonyms

    * (composed of distinct elements ): incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated * (markedly different ): different, dissimilar, unalike

    References

    Related terms

    * dispair * disparately * disparateness * disparity

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

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