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Metalmarsh89 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 15 2013 Location: Oregon, USA Status: Offline Points: 2673 |
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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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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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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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tszirmay ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 17 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6673 |
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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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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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The word everyone is reaching for is "disparity"
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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^ Metalmarch wants to avoid negative prefixes/prefices, in search of a more original word.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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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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Gerinski ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 10 2010 Location: Barcelona Spain Status: Offline Points: 5154 |
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Depending on the context it could perhaps be 'separation', 'variation', 'multi-valued', 'spread', 'ranged'
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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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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Metalmarsh89 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 15 2013 Location: Oregon, USA Status: Offline Points: 2673 |
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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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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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^ Very much so in Russian.
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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Venal, to suss, social 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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zappaholic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 24 2006 Location: flyover country Status: Offline Points: 2822 |
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Oddly, "disparity" has an adjective form - "disparate" - while "parity" does not. |
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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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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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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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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You mean words like "pissed" or "fanny".
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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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The Doctor ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 23 2005 Location: The Tardis Status: Offline Points: 8543 |
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Don't forget dis-is-an-ex-parate.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Dayvenkirq ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
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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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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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![]() Edited by akamaisondufromage - September 09 2014 at 14:43 |
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