Composed of diverse or incongruous parts or elements; mixed, motley. See also chance-medley, n. Now rare.

Intermingled, in confusion.

Confused, miscellaneous.

Confused, jumbled; inconsistent.

Consisting of assorted parts or elements grouped or massed together without order; mixed and disorderly in composition or character; (with plural…

= hotchpotch, adj. Obsolete.

figurative. Variable, inconstant; flawed. Now rare.

Of a thing or collection of things: composed of elements of diverse or varied character, form, appearance, etc. Frequently with implication of…

attributive or as adj. Of the composition of hodge-podge or a heterogeneous mixture.

= promiscuous, adj.

Of the nature of or designating a jumble or medley. rare.

Miscellaneous, indiscriminate, ‘hotchpotch’. Also of a person: That makes a hotch-potch.

As complement of to be or in other stative expressions (sometimes passing into adjectival use; cf. B.). In a mixture or jumble; intermingled; esp.…

Confusedly mixed; jumbled, muddled, disorganized; containing highly disparate elements, heterogeneous, motley.

= promiscuous, adj.

of the nature of a hotchpotch, confusedly mingled.

heterogeneous.

Of the nature of or resembling a hash (in various senses); made up of a jumbled mixture of incongruous things; hashed together.

Oddly mixed or jumbled together; motley; muddled, confused.

Particoloured, variegated, chequered. Formerly also (occasionally): †diverse, varied (obsolete).

miscellaneous.

consisting of odds and ends (see odds, n. 7); miscellaneous.

adj. Miscellaneous, mixed, assorted, diverse; of water, ‘broken’. chow-chow chop: the last lighter containing the sundry small packages to fill up a…

In attributive use. colloquial. Of a mixed character or nature; motley.

attributive. Composed of miscellaneous elements; motley, scrappy. Also: characteristic of a ragbag; ragged, untidy.

The opposite of coherent; incoherent; incongruous.