Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Composed of a variety of substances.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed of various materials; mixed; jumbled: as, a farraginous discourse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Formed of various materials; mixed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Random ,miscellaneous ,indiscriminate .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word farraginous.
Examples
-
It's a purposefully indecipherable, farraginous, hodgepodge of pseudo-political images.
Matthew Diffee: The Rejection Collection (and Caption Contest) 2008
-
Enormous caravans, farraginous and densely populated, crisscrossed the lands.
Archive 2004-03-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
-
This engaging, farraginous show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, on Fifth Avenue, invites the viewer to think of the nineteenth-century landscape artist, usually envisioned as the independent producer of a luxury artifact, as, instead, a tool of commerce and real estate development.
The Artist as Prospector Updike, John 2006
-
Enormous caravans, farraginous and densely populated, crisscrossed the lands.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2004
-
Some farraginous mix of my own thoughts, knowledge, and memories?
-
Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.
Ulysses 2003
-
The farraginous flotilla threw alien city-shadows against the night sky.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
-
The farraginous flotilla threw alien city-shadows against the night sky.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
-
The farraginous flotilla threw alien city-shadows against the night sky.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
-
Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
brtom commented on the word farraginous
"Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 27, 2007
jinglebelljosie commented on the word farraginous
varied, miscellaneous
November 8, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word farraginous
a mountain made of metamorphic rock ???
May 5, 2010