motley

Meanings

Plural: motleys

Noun

• a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
• a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
• a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
• An incongruous mixture.
• A jester's multicoloured clothes.
• A jester; a fool.

Verb

• make something more diverse and varied
• make motley; color with different colors

Adjective Satellite

• consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; ; ; ; ; ; - I.A.Richards
  • "a motley crew"
• having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
  • "a jester dressed in motley"

Adj

• Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity.
• Having many colours; variegated.

Synonyms

assorted, assortment, aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured, calico, catholic, colorful, colorful (US) / colourful, colorific, discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US, dishomogeneous, diverse, diversified, eclectic, heterogeneous, kaleidoscopic, liberal, manifold, many-coloured, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mixed, mixed bag, mixture, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multichromatic, multicolor, multicolor (US) / multicolour, multicolored, multicolored (US) / multicoloured, multicolorous, multicolour, multicoloured, multifarious, multifold, multihued, obsolete) / discoloured, painted, parti-color, particolored, particolored (US) / particoloured, particoloured, piebald, pied, polychromate, polychromatic, polychromed, polyhued, potpourri, prismatic, rainbow, rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured, salmagundi, smorgasbord, sundry, tissued, variable, varicolored, varicoloured, varied, variegate, variegated, variety, various, vary

Related Words

mottled

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