ASSORTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assorted mean? 

• ASSORTED (adjective)
  The adjective ASSORTED has 2 senses:

1. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

2. of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity

  Familiarity information: ASSORTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSORTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

Synonyms:

assorted; miscellaneous; mixed; motley; sundry

Context example:

sundry sciences commonly known as social

Similar:

heterogeneous; heterogenous (consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity

Synonyms:

assorted; various

Context example:

cited various reasons for his behavior

Similar:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

 Context examples 

Such another scheme, composed of so many ill-assorted people, she hoped never to be betrayed into again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wondering eyes, and the children all ran away and hid behind their mothers when they saw the Lion; but no one spoke to them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner; and when I looked at Agnes by her side, and thought how good and true Agnes was, suspicions arose within me that it was an ill-assorted friendship.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some attempts had been made, I noticed, to infuse new blood into this dwindling frame, by repairing the costly old wood-work here and there with common deal; but it was like the marriage of a reduced old noble to a plebeian pauper, and each party to the ill-assorted union shrunk away from the other.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)