Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Composed of a variety of substances.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Formed of various materials; mixed; jumbled: as, a farraginous discourse.
Wiktionary
- adj. Random, miscellaneous, indiscriminate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Formed of various materials; mixed.
Etymologies
- From (the stem of) Latin farrago + -ous. (Wiktionary)
- 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.”
“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.”
“Some farraginous mix of my own thoughts, knowledge, and memories?”
“The farraginous flotilla threw alien city-shadows against the night sky.”
“Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘farraginous’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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-ginous
scaturiginous, imaginous, favaginous, perliginous, ferruginous, lanuginous, lentiginous, mucilaginous, plumbaginous, ambaginous, fuscoferuginous, rubiginous and 12 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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jealousytheory's list
pusilanimous, tumultuous, eclat, recherche, twee, esoteric, eccentric, eclectic, ethereal, koine, farraginous, headweak and 2 more...
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VEA (Very Easily Amused)
Words that will entertain me when I repeat them out loud at random intervals during the day.
anthracite, Ginnungagap, thylacine, Guatemala, charbon de garance, oxalis, scoria, vitriol, membraneous, pumbuluu, blepharospasm, agallochum and 33 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for farraginous.
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