sundry

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adjective

sun·​dry ˈsən-drē 

: including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous, various

sundry items/articles

The interior was padded and crammed with little pockets and nets for hatboxes and sundry possessions.

—Graham Robb

Served up with these, were sundry greens, —lichens, mosses, ferns, and fungi.

—Herman Melville

It's not just books on sale anymore—it's CD's, DVD's, greeting cards, stationery, sundry gifts, coffee and baked goods …

—Charles Taylor

… to protect us from colds, broken crockery, and the sundry inconveniences of a royal household.

—Gail Carson Levine

At the same time the populace, reading the news items of his doings and hearing him speak on various and sundry occasions, conceived a great fancy for him.

—Theodore Dreiser

sundry

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pronoun

plural in construction

: an indeterminate number

—usually used in the phrase all and sundry to mean "everyone"

Whenever a crowd gathered, as it did at every stop, we interrogated all and sundry about the events of 1943.

—Samuel Eliot Morison

Cluny lashed out at all and sundry with his tail, foaming at the mouth and cursing wildly …

—Brian Jacques

compare sundries

Examples of sundry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

His job included doing the rounds of the city’s Chinatown district and sundry junkyards to buy spare parts. —Ian Sayson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025

The contestants deal with rough seas, strong currents, jellyfish and sundry venomous creatures, intruding fishermen, limited air, sinus crises, variable visibility and unexpected orcas. —Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025

The combination of the Roku and Amazon user bases in this deal could boost the scale advertisers can get in an era when audiences have grown increasingly fragmented across sundry platforms. —Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 June 2025

In Outrageous, a new series now streaming on BritBox, Carter stars as the eldest of the famous Mitfords: the British socialite sisters with sundry political ideologies and their fair share of passion, polemic, and scandal throughout the 1930s. —Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 June 2025

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English, different for each, from Old English syndrig, from sundor apart — more at sunder

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Pronoun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing sundry

• all and sundry

Kids Definition

sundry

adjective

sun·​dry

ˈsən-drē

: miscellaneous, several, various

for sundry reasons