MISCELLANEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miscellaneous mean? 

• MISCELLANEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective MISCELLANEOUS has 2 senses:

1. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

2. having many aspects or qualities

  Familiarity information: MISCELLANEOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISCELLANEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

Synonyms:

assorted; miscellaneous; mixed; motley; sundry

Context example:

sundry sciences commonly known as social

Similar:

heterogeneous; heterogenous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having many aspects or qualities

Synonyms:

many-sided; miscellaneous; multifaceted; multifarious

Context example:

a miscellaneous crowd

Similar:

varied (characterized by variety)

 Context examples 

Miscellaneous agents found useful in the symptomatic treatment of diarrhea.

(Antidiarrheal Agent, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In one miscellaneous section he came upon a "Norrie's Epitome."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“That's the Till!” observed Miss Mowcher, standing at the chair again, and replacing in the bag a miscellaneous collection of little objects she had emptied out of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her experience and miscellaneous reading were of service now, for they gave her some idea of dramatic effect, and supplied plot, language, and costumes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miscellaneous Neoplasm is an NCI Cancer Therapeutic Evaluation Program (CTEP) Simplified Disease Classification (SDC) category used to organize cancer-related disease coding that harmonizes with and supports reporting based on the global standard Medical Dictionary for Drug Regulatory Reporting (MedDRA) terminology.

(NCI CTEP SDC Miscellaneous Neoplasm Category Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

He was a sort of town traveller for a number of miscellaneous houses, now; but made little or nothing of it, I am afraid.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I did not like to leave him, under such circumstances, and we all three dined together off a beefsteak pie—which was one of the many good things for which Peggotty was famous—and which was curiously flavoured on this occasion, I recollect well, by a miscellaneous taste of tea, coffee, butter, bacon, cheese, new loaves, firewood, candles, and walnut ketchup, continually ascending from the shop.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Among the great beams, bulks, and ringbolts of the ship, and the emigrant-berths, and chests, and bundles, and barrels, and heaps of miscellaneous baggage—“lighted up, here and there, by dangling lanterns; and elsewhere by the yellow daylight straying down a windsail or a hatchway—were crowded groups of people, making new friendships, taking leave of one another, talking, laughing, crying, eating and drinking; some, already settled down into the possession of their few feet of space, with their little households arranged, and tiny children established on stools, or in dwarf elbow-chairs; others, despairing of a resting-place, and wandering disconsolately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)