Motley word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "motley" word
Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[noun] a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
[noun] a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"
[adjective] having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
[adjective] consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards
[verb] make motley; color with different colors
[verb] make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu"
\Mot"ley\, n. 1. A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool. --Chaucer. ``Motley 's the only wear.'' --Shak. 2. Hence, a jester, a fool. [Obs.] --Shak. {Man of motley}, a fool. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
Synonyms for motley
assorted, assortment, colored, colorful, coloured, heterogeneous, heterogenous, in color(p), miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mixed, mixed bag, mixture, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, parti-color, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, potpourri, salmagundi, sundry(a), varicolored, varicoloured, variegate, variety, vary
See also: accumulation | aggregation | assemblage | checker | chequer | cloth | collection | color | color in | colorise | colorize | colour | colour in | colourise | colourize | diversify | fabric | farrago | garment | hodgepodge | hotchpotch | material | melange | mingle-mangle | mishmash | motley | oddments | odds and ends | omnium-gatherum | ragbag | range | sampler | selection | textile |
Related terms: assorted, bespangle, bicolor, blotch, buffo, Columbine, daedal, deviating, discrete, dissimilar, divergent, diversified, eclectic, erratic, heterogeneous, idiot, incongruous, in disagreement, mottled, multiracial, patchy, pickle-herring, promiscuous, Punch, spasmodic, sporadic, unlike, unorthodox, unsteady, variable
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Let's analyse "motley" as pure text. This string has Six letters in Two syllables and Two vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: YELTOM. Average typing speed for these characters is 1590 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
motley: 6 + 5 = 11, reduced: 11 (or 9 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Eleven. |
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