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motley
Synonyms and Antonyms of motley
1
consisting of many things of different sorts
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
2
marked by a variety of usually vivid colors
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
1
a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks
2
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
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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