motley
Meaning
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- Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity.
- Having many colours; variegated.
Synonyms
many-coloured
multi-colour
multi-color
parti-color
many-colored
diversity of colours
mixed character
diversicolored
mix in
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mot‧ley
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɒtli/
Etymology
From Middle English motle, from Anglo-Norman motteley (“parti-colored”), from Old English mot (“speck”). Doublet of mote. The English word can be analysed as mottle + -y.
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