Synonyms
- 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
- mixed bag
- montage
- motley
- muddle
- olio
- olla podrida
- omnium-gatherum
- pastiche
- patchwork
- patchwork quilt
- potpourri
- ragbag
- ragout
- rummage
- salad
- salmagundi
- scramble
- shuffle
- smorgasbord
- stew
- tumble
- variety
- welter
Examples of mishmash in a Sentence
the painting was just a mishmash of colors and abstract shapes as far as we could tell
Recent Examples on the Web
But a lack of federal regulation and a mishmash of state laws got in the way.
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Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
For the works at Hauser & Wirth, she’s traded the stock programs for manipulations of her own devising, using physical and digital collaging of her features—an eye here, an ear there—to make mishmashes that seem to take their cues equally from Pablo Picasso, commedia dell’arte, and Mr. Potato Head.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
Nearby, there are Byzantine remains in the hilltop city Veria, and superb wineries such as Kir-Yianni in the rolling hills around Naousa.
Thessaloniki — the region’s capital and Greece’s second city — is a gastro hub as well as a mishmash of architectural and archaeological eras.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
Expect others to resort to a mishmash of ad hoc solutions, policy experts say.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
The World's End is one of Edgar Wright's more successful mishmashes of various film genres, this time being a sci-fi horror comedy about friends who go on a pub crawl only to discover that much of the population has been replaced by androids.
—Janey Tracey and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2023
Some residents identified the man who made butter chicken in Peshawar as Kundan Lal Singh – a mishmash of the names.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
The islands that poke out of the ocean in the South Sandwich Islands have a mishmash of names that reflect the variety of people who discovered them.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
Much of the land in the surrounding area is a mishmash of one family neighborhoods and industrial sites.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2024
Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
For the works at Hauser & Wirth, she’s traded the stock programs for manipulations of her own devising, using physical and digital collaging of her features—an eye here, an ear there—to make mishmashes that seem to take their cues equally from Pablo Picasso, commedia dell’arte, and Mr. Potato Head.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
Nearby, there are Byzantine remains in the hilltop city Veria, and superb wineries such as Kir-Yianni in the rolling hills around Naousa.
Thessaloniki — the region’s capital and Greece’s second city — is a gastro hub as well as a mishmash of architectural and archaeological eras.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
Expect others to resort to a mishmash of ad hoc solutions, policy experts say.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
The World's End is one of Edgar Wright's more successful mishmashes of various film genres, this time being a sci-fi horror comedy about friends who go on a pub crawl only to discover that much of the population has been replaced by androids.
—Janey Tracey and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2023
Some residents identified the man who made butter chicken in Peshawar as Kundan Lal Singh – a mishmash of the names.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
The islands that poke out of the ocean in the South Sandwich Islands have a mishmash of names that reflect the variety of people who discovered them.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
Much of the land in the surrounding area is a mishmash of one family neighborhoods and industrial sites.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Mishmash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mishmash. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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mishmash
noun
mish·mash
ˈmish-ˌmash 
-ˌmäsh
: hodgepodge, jumble
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