Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Various; miscellaneous: a purse containing keys, wallet, and sundry items.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Separate; distinct; diverse.
- Individual; one for each.
- Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
- To dry, or be dried, by the natural heat of the sun, without artificial heat.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Separate; distinct; diverse.
- adj. obsolete Individual; one for each.
- adj. Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
- adj. Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.
- n. usually plural A minor miscellaneous item.
- n. in the plural, accounting A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.
- n. usually plural, cricket An extra.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
Etymologies
- From Middle English sundry, sondry, sindry, from Old English syndriġ ("separate, single; sundry, various, distinct; special, private, peculiar, exceptional, particular; characteristic; (distributive) one each"), from sundor ("asunder, apart, separately"), equivalent to sunder + -y. Cognate with Low German sunderig ("single, special"), Middle High German sunderig ("separate, special, private"), Swedish söndrig ("broken, tattered"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sundri, from Old English syndrig, separate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Another consisted of cloth of yellow satin, "garnisshed in sundry places withe small pearles and fringed withe Silke.”
“The underlying kinds of stuff are the * firststuffs*, which link together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest.”
and the dawn comes sneaking up when he thinks i'm not looking
“In my case, for 24 days, it equaled a $600 dollar savings, which bought some great meals, and other in sundry items well appreciated.”
“There is a strong possibility that any international force would be led by them, having been so spectacularly successful and humanitarian in sundry African countries.”
“Now when Marzawan heard the name of Kamar al-Zaman, he knew that this was he whom he had heard spoken of in sundry cities and of whom he came in search, but he feigned ignorance and asked the Wazir, And who is Kamar al-Zaman?”
“Dickens frequently followed the same method, and in sundry impressive passages his sentences scan faultlessly.”
“Mrs. Evelyn looked, with a partial smile, at the pretty features which the business of eating the strawberries displayed in sundry novel and picturesque points of view, and asked what she meant?”
“But for Indonesians to be truly free, they have to also be freed from the yoke of colonial and foreign agents in their Chinese communities, many of the 11 million or so who have aided and abbetted all and sundry from the Japanese in world war 2 to the Dutch and the Americans and yes Singapore in their exploitation of 200 million people they collectively see as inferior and subservient in advancement of their own causes and interests.”
“129 A mere exaggeration of the “Gull-fairs” noted by travellers in sundry islands as Ascension and the rock off Brazilian Santos.”
“It’s got nothing to do with them cutting back the Probation Service, failing to build prison space or leaning on the Judiciary to let all in sundry out because there’s no where to put them!”
Sonnex and Farmer – only a matter of time. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sundry’.
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Classic
mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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501
Classic
abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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501
Classic
irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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501
Classic
bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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Shakespeare.03
kinsman, bruit, purgative, sundry, largess, barefaced, carouse, valiant, auger, verity, weal, battlement and 2 more...
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GRE Readings
conclusive, derivative, conviction, affected, ample, defiance, bid, conception, demean, converse, compliance, base and 133 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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Vocabulary Words
words to reference while writing something
cohesive, epitome, tempered, imply, prudent, sundry, sagest, agitation, giddy, disposition, inclination, gracious and 114 more...
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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SAT
ossified, bombastic, visceral, ostentacious, jingoism, capricious, equivocate, supercilious, aspersion, viable, pugnacious, indigence and 31 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
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List of words to expand my vocabulary
does what it says on the tin, and is severely needed.
indolent, insolent, idly, divulge, tattle, benign, roguish, daintily, idle, dowdy, sordid, wanton and 242 more...
Tweets
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brtom For Red is of sundry sorts till it deepens to BLACK. (from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart) Dec 31, 2007
seanahan related to asunder. Oct 21, 2007