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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Composed of a variety of substances.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Formed of various materials; mixed; jumbled: as, a farraginous discourse.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. rare Formed of various materials; mixed.

Etymologies

  1. From (the stem of) Latin farrago +‎ -ous. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin farrāgō, farrāgin-, medley, hodgepodge; see farrago. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It's a purposefully indecipherable, farraginous, hodgepodge of pseudo-political images.”

    Matthew Diffee: The Rejection Collection (and Caption Contest)

  • “Enormous caravans, farraginous and densely populated, crisscrossed the lands.”

    notes from the peanut gallery

  • “This engaging, farraginous show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, on Fifth Avenue, invites the viewer to think of the nineteenth-century landscape artist, usually envisioned as the independent producer of a luxury artifact, as, instead, a tool of commerce and real estate development.”

    The Artist as Prospector

  • “Some farraginous mix of my own thoughts, knowledge, and memories?”

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact

  • “The farraginous flotilla threw alien city-shadows against the night sky.”

    Bloodhype

  • “Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.”

    Ulysses

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  • fbharjo a mountain made of metamorphic rock ??? May 5, 2010

  • jinglebelljosie varied, miscellaneous Nov 8, 2008

  • brtom "Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle."
    Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Jan 27, 2007

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