mixed
/mɪkst/ adjective B1- Having two or more separate aspects. · I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting.· The various studies produced mixed results.
- Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated. · My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility.
- Including both male(s) and female(s). · The tennis match was mixed, with a boy and a girl on each side.· My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school.
- Stemming from two or more races or breeds. · The benefit dog show has both mixed and single-breed competitions.· Mixed blood can surprisingly produce inherited properties which neither parent showed
- Polarizing; including both positive and negative feedback. · The movie has received mixed reviews from movie critics.
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It was a mixed mass of blue, red, and gold.
“Oh, as for parricides, and such dreadful people as that,” interposed Renée, “it matters very little what is done to them; but as regards poor unfortunate creatures whose only crime consists in having mixed themselves up in political intrigues——”
Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles.
“I learn the proposition off by heart and then he draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up.
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