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motley
Synonyms and Antonyms of motley
- a ship with a motley crew of old salts, young adventurers, and shifty characters of all ages
disparate, divergent, diverse, sundry, various
chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, farraginous, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled
amalgamated, blended, combined, commingled, commixed, conglomerated, fused, incorporated, intermingled, intermixed, merged, mingled
- a tropical bird with motley plumage
brave, bright, brilliant, gay, vibrant
flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, showy, splashy
checkered, dotted, patterned, plaid, plaided, striped
dappled (also dapple), marbled, mottled, parti-color (or parti-colored), piebald, pied, pinto
flecked, specked, speckled, spotted
banded, barred, brindled (or brindle), streaked, striated
bichrome, bicolored (or bicolor), dichromatic, trichromatic, tricolor (or tricolored), two-tone, two-toned
bleached, decolorized, faded, washed-out
dull, faint, gray (also grey), neutral, pale, pallid, unbrilliant
motley
Synonyms and Antonyms of motley
- the motleys with their colorful outfits
- a motley of old junk stored in the attic
agglomerate, agglomeration, alphabet soup, assortment, botch, clutter, collage, crazy quilt, farrago, gallimaufry, grab bag, gumbo, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jambalaya, jumble, jungle, litter, macédoine, medley, mélange, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, montage, muddle, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, ragout, rummage, salad, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, smorgasbord, stew, tumble, variety, welter
detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundries
accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomerate, conglomeration
admixture, alloy, amalgam, blend, combination, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, intermixture, mix-up
bollix, chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, dog's breakfast [chiefly British], mess, morass, muddle, shambles
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