farraginous

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UK/fəˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪnəs/UK/fəˈɹæd͡ʒɪnəs/

adjective

Consisting of a random, miscellaneous, or indiscriminate mixture; akin to a farrago.

OriginLatin farrago →
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Meanings

adjectivefarraginous (comparative more farraginous, superlative most farraginous)

comparative more farraginous · superlative most farraginous

  1. archaicConsisting of a random, miscellaneous, or indiscriminate mixture; akin to a farrago.

    Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor bar none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
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    For being a confusion of knaves and fools, and a farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages; it is but natural if their determinations be monstrous, and many waies inconsistent with Truth.

    1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinfarrago
  2. Englishfarraginous

From (the stem of) Latin farrago + -ous.

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farraginous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farraginous

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Chicago

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