ill-assorted
English
Adjective
ill-assorted (comparative more ill-assorted, superlative most ill-assorted)
- Badly matched, or unmatched.
- 1860, Anne Beale, Gladys, the Reaper:
- He and Mrs Jonathan were a remarkable pair; one of those ill-assorted couples that you wonder at.
- 1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184:
- Last Christmas Eve the "Pines Express" arrived at Bath behind an ill-assorted combination of locomotives.
Translations
Badly matched
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References
- “ill-assorted”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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