par

Usage

• disparate

  Things that are disparate are clearly different from each other and belong to different groups or classes.

• disparage

  If you disparage someone or something, you say unpleasant words that show you have no respect for that person or thing.

• nonpareil

  Something nonpareil has no equal because it is much better than all others of its kind or type.

• disparity

  When there is a disparity between two things, they are not of equal status; therefore, they are different or unlike in some way.

• compare

  When you compare two things, you find out how those things are like—and not like—each other.

• comparative

  relating to or based on or involving comparison

• comparison

  the act of examining resemblances

• disparaging

  expressive of low opinion

• incomparable

  such that comparison is impossible

• par

  make a score (on a hole) equal to par

• parity

  (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered