Vocabulary
Disparity
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a great difference
Urdu meaning
عدم مساوات، فرق
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The extractive nature of the Pakistani state has been a major reason for our backwardness and increasing economic disparity, which is very much evident in the country`s growing poverty levels.
- The pandemic highlighted this disparity.
- Research by the UN, World Bank and Asian Development Bank has consistently found a strong link between poor governance and high levels of poverty, hunger, marginalisation and gender disparity.
- The enormous disparity in their wealth, however, makes MBS far more important.
- Then there is also greater internal disparity between the districts within the province.
Synonyms
discrepancy, inconsistency, imbalance, inequality,
Antonyms
parity, similarity
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