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Farraginous vs Disparate - What's the difference?

farraginous | disparate |

As adjectives the difference between farraginous and disparate

is that farraginous is random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate 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.

farraginous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
    • For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
    • Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.

    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

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    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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