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Meaning of "farraginous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FARRAGINOUS

farraginous  [fəˈrædʒɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FARRAGINOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Farraginous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FARRAGINOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of farraginous in the English dictionary

The definition of farraginous in the dictionary is of or relating to a confused mixture.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FARRAGINOUS


androgynous
ænˈdrɒdʒɪnəs
cartilaginous
ˌkɑːtɪˈlædʒɪnəs
decagynous
dekˈædʒɪnəs
dodecagynous
ˌdəʊdeˈkædʒɪnəs
endogenous
ɛnˈdɒdʒɪnəs
exogenous
ɛkˈsɒdʒɪnəs
heptagynous
hepˈtædʒɪnəs
hexagynous
hɛksˈædʒɪnəs
homogenous
həˈmɒdʒɪnəs
indigenous
ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs
mucilaginous
ˌmjuːsɪˈlædʒɪnəs
oleaginous
ˌəʊlɪˈædʒɪnəs
pentagynous
pɛnˈtædʒɪnəs
plumbaginous
plʌmˈbædʒɪnəs
subcartilaginous
sʌbˌkɑːtɪˈlædʒɪnəs
tetragynous
tɛˈtrædʒɪnəs
ustilaginous
ˌʌstɪˈlædʒɪnəs
vertiginous
vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs
viraginous
vɪˈrædʒɪnəs
voraginous
vəˈrædʒɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FARRAGINOUS

farness
Farnham
faro
Faroe Islands
Faroes
Faroese
farolito
farouche
Farouk I
Farquhar
Farquhar Islands
farrago
Farrell
farren
farrier
farrieries
farriery
farrow
farruca
farse

WORDS THAT END LIKE FARRAGINOUS

aluminous
bituminous
conterminous
coterminous
gelatinous
glutinous
heinous
luminous
mountainous
mucinous
mutinous
nous
numinous
ominous
pulchritudinous
resinous
ruinous
spinous
tendinous
villainous
voluminous

Synonyms and antonyms of farraginous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «farraginous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FARRAGINOUS

Find out the translation of farraginous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of farraginous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «farraginous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

farraginous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

farraginous
570 millions of speakers

English

farraginous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

farraginous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

farraginous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

farraginous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

farraginous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তালগোল পাকান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

farraginous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jauh lebih hebat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

farraginous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寄せ集めの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

farraginous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Farraginous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xào bần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

farraginous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुदूर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

farraginous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

farraginoso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

farraginous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

farraginous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

farraginous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

farraginous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitneembaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

farraginous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

farraginous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of farraginous

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FARRAGINOUS»

The term «farraginous» is used very little and occupies the 192.208 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FARRAGINOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «farraginous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «farraginous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about farraginous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FARRAGINOUS»

Discover the use of farraginous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to farraginous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law Around 1100: Essays ...
13368, fols 9r-20v, and lat. 13413 and lat. 14193, fols 87r-94v) and in MS Antwerp, Musaeum Plantin-Moretus M.82, fols 95v-97v. The farrago in MS Paris, BN lat. 13368 was integrated into several other collections, all farraginous in nature.
Bruce Clark Brasington, Kathleen G. Cushing, 2008
2
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its ...
... divination, and childlike faith in the “divine revelations” contained in the C haldean Oracles (a fascinating but farraginous morass of Hellenistic and Asiatic religion, mysticism, hermeticism, and philosophy). Perhaps the most devastating blow ...
David Bentley Hart, 2009
3
'up Out of This': Metatextuality in Joyce's "Ulysses".
The terms “chaffering” and “farraginous” are also highly suggestive. Chaffering comes from the verb “chaffer,” which the OED defines as “To deal, bargain, haggle, discuss terms, bandy words” or, in a lesser used sense, “To mingle, interchange ...
Daniel Joseph Pape, 2008
4
The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words
FARRAGINOUS fl. *£ Having the characteristics of a farrago, i.e., a hotchpotch or disordered mixture. Normally one speaks of a farrago of lies, or of half-truths, but there is nothing intrinsically mendacious about the farraginous; nor is farra- ...
Peter Bowler, 1992
5
The Synonym Finder
... composite, multifold; mul- lifarious, various, diverse, multiplex; manifold, sun- pry, miscellaneous, farraginous, mixed, variegated, diversified. eterosexual, adj. drawn to the opposite sex, SI. straight, SI. hetero. hew, v. 1. chop, hack, ax; strike,  ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
6
A Reader's Guide to James Joyce
of the word, Dante's and ours, Ulysses has a happy ending, like The Divine Comedy, and, like something by Thurber, Joyce's "chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle" 2 is funny, however dark and terrible some of its materials.
William York Tindall, 1995
7
Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism
He describes Ulysses within the text as “this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle” (U 14.1412)—chaffering meaning trading, allincluding meaning comprehensive, and most farraginous meaning mixed beyond any precedent.
Maurizia Boscagli, Enda Duffy, 2011
8
The European Magazine, and London Review
TN the times of this great French Phy- -1 fician, farraginous compofitions pre- Tailed very much in the practice of phytic ; compofitions abounding with ingredients of different virtues and qualities. " Our phylicians," faid he, " are like a horfe doctor ...
9
Verbal Advantage: Ten Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
... “Every day, the psychiatrist listens to an astonishing farrago of hopes, fears, dreams, wishes, doubts, and resentments.” The corresponding adjective is farraginous (fuh-RAJ-i-nus), mixed, jumbled, miscellaneous, heterogeneous, ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2009
10
Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions ...
The themes here interwoven— and there is a good deal of conscious art in this farraginous narrative, and more fiction than may meet the eyehad long been present to me: paternity and death, earth and faith and cars. But I had not seized them ...
J. Gerald Kennedy, 1995

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FARRAGINOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term farraginous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Navigating the Realms of Thinking & Faith
... tradition (Mark 7:13); for us, we have acquired and continue to follow some farraginous conflation which can only but leave us high and dry. «GhanaWeb, May 15»
2
Reacting to Britain's election
There will be more to say, on the other side of the political spectrum, about the farraginous hordes that are banging at Prime Minister David ... «Socialist Worker Online, May 15»
3
Jagdishpur Lake sees rise in number of water birds
Likewise, 3,000 Lesser Whistling duck were counted this year, including 1,905 Common Teal, 686 Red-Crested Pochard, 218 Farraginous ... «E Kantipur, Jan 15»
4
Dionne: The sun never sets on the English language
Because it's equal parts of huge and farraginous, English is uniquely expressive. There are more than a million English words now, giving us a ... «The Independent Tribune, Apr 14»
5
Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts And the Russian …
If at first glance the visitor mistakes this farraginous exhibition for a Royal Antiques Roadshow, he is not far from the truth — it lacks only Fiona ... «Evening Standard, Mar 13»
6
Irish Minister for Science will not launch anti-evolution book
In the publicity material released in advance of the book's launch Mr May said that evolution is “a fantasy of farraginous, farcical, fatuous, ... «Irish Central, Sep 10»
7
Nuder than nude
She added: "What you call abstract to me is us, the human beings, when the farraginous things were taken out of them. Actually, you may not ... «Asia Times Online, Jun 08»
8
The Rejection Collection (and Caption Contest)
It's a purposefully indecipherable, farraginous, hodgepodge of pseudo-political images. If anyone out there can craft a caption that not only ... «Huffington Post, Oct 06»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Farraginous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/farraginous>. Apr 2024 ».
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