miscellaneous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
miscellaneous
    adj 1: consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds;
           "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted
           sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of
           baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry
           sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards [syn:
           {assorted}, {miscellaneous}, {mixed}, {motley},
           {sundry(a)}]
    2: having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted
       undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious
       noise of a great city"; "a miscellaneous crowd" [syn: {many-
       sided}, {multifaceted}, {miscellaneous}, {multifarious}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Miscellaneous \Mis`cel*la"ne*ous\, a. [L. miscellaneus mixed,
   miscellaneous, fr. miscellus mixed, fr. miscere to mix. See
   {Mix}, and cf. {Miscellany}.]
   Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse
   sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous
   collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." --Milton. --
   {Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "miscellaneous":
      amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, blended,
      combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate,
      dappled, different, disparate, divergent, divers, diverse,
      diversified, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half,
      heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumbled,
      manifold, many, many-sided, medley, mingled, mixed, motley,
      multifaceted, multifarious, multiform, multinational, multiplex,
      multiracial, odd, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled,
      sundry, syncretic, thrown together, unsorted, varied, various,
      varying

    

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