disparate
DIS-per-itadjMeaning so different that they can hardly be compared
Memory hook DIS-PARROT and a WHALE. A tiny feathered parrot and a huge swimming whale: they share almost nothing. They are disparate.
The club brought together disparate people: a pilot, a poet, a plumber and a pastry chef.
In context The two reports were so disparate, one praising the new road and the other calling it a disaster, that readers wondered whether the writers had visited the same town.
Similar different, dissimilar, unrelated, distinct
Opposite similar, alike, akin
From Latin disparatus, “separated,” from disparare, “to divide”; its meaning was colored by Latin dispar, “unequal.”