Miscellaneous
[,mɪsə'leɪnɪəs] or ['mɪsə'lenɪəs]
Definition
(a.) Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Diversified, various, promiscuous, mixed, mingled, of various kinds.
Typed by Evangeline
Definition
adj. mixed or mingled: consisting of several kinds.—adj. Miscellanā′rian.—n. a writer of miscellanies.—adv. Miscellan′eously.—ns. Miscellan′eousness; Mis′cellānist a writer of miscellanies; Mis′cellany a mixture of various kinds: a collection of writings on different subjects—also n.pl. Miscellā′nea.
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Examples
- I can't work you into a miscellaneous one, no how. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Talk of not being qualified to be miscellaneous! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-a-brac, but likable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It must often happen with miscellaneous ones. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No one could construct a house on ground cluttered with miscellaneous junk. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now, not one of these miscellaneous things was in existence; not an outsider was sufficiently informed about such devices to make them on order, except perhaps the special wire. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And now ensued a miscellaneous scene of confusion. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Amongst miscellaneous heapsI found and purchased the latter article. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Miscellaneous History of various Machines and Motions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The production of several completed plays per week necessitates the employment of a considerable staff of people of miscellaneous trades and abilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Miscellaneous H istory of various Artificial Materials ,--Ena mel, Porcelain, various cements, etc. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He was a sort of town traveller for a number of miscellaneous houses, now; but made little or nothing of it, I am afraid. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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