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mixed
English
Etymology
From mix, equivalent to mix +? -ed. Compare Middle English mixid (“mixed”, past participle), Old English miscode (“mixed”, preterite). More at mix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?kst/
- Rhymes: -?kst
Verb
mixed
- simple past tense and past participle of mix
Adjective
mixed (comparative more mixed, superlative most mixed)
- Having two or more separate aspects.
- I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting.
- Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
- My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility.
- Including both male(s) and female(s).
- The tennis match was mixed with a boy and a girl on each side.
- My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school.
- Stemming from two or more races or breeds
- The benefit dog show has both mixed and single-breed competitions.
- Mixed blood can surprisingly produce inherited properties which neither parent showed
Synonyms
- (having two or more separate aspects): heterogeneous (See also Thesaurus:heterogeneous); (feelings) ambivalent, conflicted, equivocal
- (not pure): impure
- (including both males and females): co-ed, unsegregated
- (stemming from two or more races or breeds): hybrid, mongrel
Antonyms
- (having two or more separate aspects): homogeneous, unmixed; See also Thesaurus:homogeneous
- (not pure): pure
- (including both males and females): single-sex
- (stemming from two or more races or breeds): pedigree, pure, pureblooded, purebred
Derived terms
Related terms
- mixer
- mixture
Translations
Anagrams
- demix
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incongruous
English
Etymology
From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?k?n.???u.?s/, /?n?k??.??u.?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?k?n.??u.?s/, /???k??.??u.?s/
Adjective
incongruous (comparative more incongruous, superlative most incongruous)
- Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette, ch. 34:
- [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
- 1912, Jack London, A Son Of The Sun, ch. 1:
- Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)[1]
- For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette, ch. 34:
- (mathematics) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
- 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.
Derived terms
- incongruously
- incongruousness
Synonyms
- incongruitous
Related terms
- incongruence
- incongruent
- incongruity
Translations
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