Word Meanings - MEDLEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri. Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, potpourri to instrumental, compositions. 4. A cloth of mixed colors. Fuller. (more info) 1. A mixture; a mingled and

Additional info about word: MEDLEY

A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri. Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, potpourri to instrumental, compositions. 4. A cloth of mixed colors. Fuller. (more info) 1. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously. This medley of philosophy and war. Addison. Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. W. Walsh. 2. The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a mêlée. Holland.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEDLEY)

• Indiscriminate
• Mixed
• confused
• medley
• promiscuous
• ill-assorted
• undiscerning
• undistinguishing
• undiscriminating
• Miscellany
• Mixture
• Intermixture
• jumble
• variety
• diversity
• Variety
• Difference
• miscellany
• multiplicity
• multiformity
• abnormity

Related words: (words related to MEDLEY)

• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• JUMBLE
  1. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words. 2. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• CONFUSE
  1. To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision. A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused.
• CONFUSABILITY
  Capability of being confused.
• MIXTLY
  With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
• DIFFERENCE
  An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• MEDLEY
  1. Mixed; of mixed material or color. "A medlè coat." Chaucer. 2. Mingled; confused. Dryden.
• PROMISCUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being promiscuous.
• MULTIFORMITY
  The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.
• INTERMIXTURE
  1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
• PROMISCUOUSLY
  In a promiscuous manner.
• MULTIPLICITY
  The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects. "A multiplicity of goods." South.
• UNDISCERNING
  Want of discernment. Spectator.
• MIXER
  One who, or that which, mixes.
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• PERMIX
  To mix; to mingle.
• PERMIXTION
  See PERMISSION
• BEJUMBLE
  To jumble together.
• IMMIX
  To mix; to mingle. Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek. Spenser.
• COMMIX
  To mix or mingle together; to blend. The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.