farraginousadj.
/fəˈreɪdʒɪnəs/ Miscellaneous, indiscriminate, ‘hotchpotch’. Also of a person: That makes a hotch-potch.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed
medleya1400
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
hotchpotch1556
promiscuous1579
hotchpot1588
pied1594
motley1601
hodge-podge1602
promiscual1602
macaronic1611
farraginous1616
throughother1626
mishmash1652
promiscous1656
hotchpotchly1674
hodge-podging1772
hashy1781
mixty-maxty1786
motleyed1798
gallimaufrical1836
odd-and-end1836
chow-chow1844
speckled1845
ragbag1882
disherent1890
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective]
blinda1400
unchoosinga1586
undiscerning1589
unrespective1609
irrespecting1625
promiscuous1633
incurious1645
indistinct1650
irrespective1650
uncritical1659
indiscerning1664
undistinguishing1665
undistinguishable1702
unrefining1735
indiscriminating1754
undiscriminating1776
indiscriminate1792
unfastidious1816
rough1819
lumping1827
indistinguishing1828
unparticularizing1828
farraginous1837
imperceiverant1844
scattergun1845
undistinctive1851
indiscriminative1854
unselecting1895
scattershot1961
1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse i. 26 They are full of farraginous and bullimong mixtures.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 10 A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sex, and ages. View more context for this quotation
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 103 The stomach..becomes tantaliz'd by the farraginous mixtures of concretes.
1765 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) III. iv. iv. §6 Notes 131 The great farraginous body of Popish rites and ceremonies.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 226 In some [mountains] different species [of stone] are jumbled together, these I call faraginous.
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 211 The Laureate has somewhere in his farraginous notes..a story of certain Polish physicians who [etc.].
1863 C. Reade in All Year Round 3 Oct. 123/2 Bailey was one of the farraginous fools of the unscientific science.
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