Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of various kinds; varied.
- adjective Having a variety of characteristics or aspects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of a mixture; diversified; promiscuous: as, miscellaneous reading; a miscellaneous rabble.
- Producing things of various sorts: as, a miscellaneous inventor.
- Synonyms See
promiscuous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Consisting of avariety ofingredients or parts. - adjective Having
diverse characteristics , abilities orappearances .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
- adjective having many aspects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Captain Winstanley had set his face against what he called miscellaneous charity.
Vixen, Volume II. 1875
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The word "miscellaneous" comes from the Latin verb miscere, meaning "to mix", and if you mix up the letters of "miscellaneous" you get
The Guardian World News Mark Watson 2010
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The word "miscellaneous" comes from the Latin verb miscere, meaning "to mix", and if you mix up the letters of "miscellaneous" you get
The Guardian World News Mark Watson 2010
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The remainder of the evening was spent by Stephen in miscellaneous cross-examination of Mrs Bunch and in efforts to extract a tune from the hurdy-gurdy.
Lost Hearts by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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[146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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If you have a general idea of where your miscellaneous spending goes — shampoo and postage stamps that you don’t bother to track, for example — then maybe "miscellaneous" is good enough for you.
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Even if there’s another 5 billion needed in miscellaneous expenses associated with this paradigm-breaking suggestion, it still only amounts to the cost of the levee re-building.
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For a frog like me, the most difficult one to pronoune in English: miscellaneous.
match 2006
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"We achieved some kind of a low, but what I would consider a high in terms of all of the late trains that we experienced during the quarter," Oversier said. "48 percent of them, so nearly half of them were attributed to what we call miscellaneous events.
KCBS Bay Area News 2010
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It might be set down as an axiomatic statement that no large publishing house in this country could possibly live exclusively from what are known as miscellaneous books, by which is meant current fiction and other ephemeral publications.
frindley commented on the word miscellaneous
Never, but never, have a file called "Miscellaneous".
This principle was taught to me by a New England Patriots fan who also managed to bring me ’round to the idea that gridiron isn't necessarily the silliest game in the world.
April 10, 2008
kamtsatka commented on the word miscellaneous
I just hate it when I can't type this right. Every time I need the word I have to use a dictionary.
October 17, 2008