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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 11:05
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Inequality. Just search for the antonyms.

One more vocabulary word from me: verisimilitude, voluble.


I was curious to know if there was a more original word, rather than another one with a negative prefix.

For example, if I am playing a game of monopoly. At the beginning there is parity among the players. But as the game moves on, some grow richer while some grow poorer. I don't know of a unique word to describe this situation. Per the antonyms listed, I believe that variation and difference speak about the direct relationship between two (or maybe more) parties. Disagreement doesn't really apply, and the rest of the words are negative variations of other words.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 11:27
Can't think of anything other than "the gap" or just "gap". My history teacher in high school and the textbook he went with liked using that word a lot.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 11:34
What I find fascinating is how some English words have different meanings in the UK or in the USA. 
MAD means angry in New York and crazy in York. It could be the same but not always.  
Truck vs lorry or elevator vs lift . 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 11:35
The word everyone is reaching for is "disparity" 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 14:05
^ Metalmarch wants to avoid negative prefixes/prefices, in search of a more original word.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 15:42
Sorry, can't make-up words to order. The word is disparity regardless of how it is formed just as the opposite of appear is disappear, the opposite of card is discard and the opposite of aster is disaster.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 01:34
Depending on the context it could perhaps be 'separation', 'variation', 'multi-valued', 'spread', 'ranged'
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 02:20
In the context Holden described disparity is the best-fit. "Parity" is defined as 'the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay.' - an inequality of status or pay is a disparity not a separation or variation.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 10:06
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

In the context Holden described disparity is the best-fit. "Parity" is defined as 'the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay.' - an inequality of status or pay is a disparity not a separation or variation.

I'd have to agree. Disparity never crossed my mind to begin with, which makes me feel silly.

But thinking on this, it seems the language does not seem to have many unique, negative terms. Rather, many words just have a dis-, in-, de-, un-, or similar prefix tacked on at the beginning to create the opposite. Is this a common theme in other languages?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 11:15
^ Very much so in Russian.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2014 at 15:03
Venalto susssocial engineering (Google itself gives a kind of a general definition that many people might not agree with), jetset.

Also, not a drill, but an auger. And it's not called the foot-measuring thing, but the Brannock device.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2014 at 11:48
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

In the context Holden described disparity is the best-fit. "Parity" is defined as 'the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay.' - an inequality of status or pay is a disparity not a separation or variation.


Oddly, "disparity" has an adjective form - "disparate" - while "parity" does not.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2014 at 12:09
Parate - noun: brightly coloured bird with hooked bill native to the Southern Hemisphere often seen perched on the shoulder of a pirate, adjective: someone who seditiously echoes the words of others.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2014 at 12:16


Dis-Parate - (adj) Brightly coloured bird with hook bill (Shouting obscenities at ladies walking past) sitting on my shoulder.  - Rather that Dat-Parate sitting on pirate's shoulder ie over there.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2014 at 12:25
Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

What I find fascinating is how some English words have different meanings in the UK or in the USA. 
MAD means angry in New York and crazy in York. It could be the same but not always.  
Truck vs lorry or elevator vs lift . 

You mean words like "pissed" or "fanny".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2014 at 13:34
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:



Dis-Parate - (adj) Brightly coloured bird with hook bill (Shouting obscenities at ladies walking past) sitting on my shoulder.  - Rather that Dat-Parate sitting on pirate's shoulder ie over there.
Walking: the sovereign of vertical barriers made from brick or stone.
Shouting: a sure thing in Jamacia
Pirate: the price of a pie.
Pibald: a bald pie.
Politics: the parasites of a parate.
Parasite:  where parates are found.
Parabolas: hunting weapon for parates composed of two balls and a piece of string


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2014 at 15:59
Don't forget dis-is-an-ex-parate.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 13:18
Precocial, symbiotic, stock-in-trade.

v Edit: the two words are omitted, not even "bleeped", ... just to be on the safe side. I just never heard those words before.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 13:34
Ermm Two of those words are derogatory, not really the kind of thing we'd use around here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 13:39


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