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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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macaronic
English
Alternative forms
- macaronick (obsolete)
Etymology
From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæk????n?k/
Adjective
macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)
- (archaic) jumbled, mixed
- (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
- (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
Translations
Noun
macaronic (plural macaronics)
- (literature) A work of macaronic character.
- (linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
Translations
Anagrams
- carcinoma, maccaroni
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