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Conspicuous vs Disparate - What's the difference?

conspicuous | disparate |

As adjectives the difference between conspicuous and disparate

is that conspicuous is obvious or easy to notice while disparate is composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

As a noun disparate is

(chiefly|in the plural) any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

conspicuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obvious or easy to notice.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=“No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”}}
    He was conspicuous by his absence.
  • Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
  • * 1969 , Saul Bellow, Mr Sammler's Planet , Penguin Books Ltd, page 6:
  • For his height he had a small face. The combination made him conspicuous .
    He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.

    Antonyms

    * inconspicuous

    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

    Noun

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

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