motley
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(verb) make motley; color with different colors |
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Synonyms: parti-color |
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Related Words: color |
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(satellite adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" |
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Synonyms: culticolour, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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(noun) a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England |
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Related Words: cloth, fabric, material, textile |
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(noun) a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) |
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Related Words: garment |
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(verb) make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" |
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Synonyms: variegate, vary |
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Related Words: checker, chequer, diversify |
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(satellite adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards |
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Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders" |
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Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixture, potpourri, variety |
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Related Words: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag, range, selection |
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