consisting of many different kinds of things that are not connected and do not easily form a group synonym diverse, various混雜的;各種各樣的 a sale of miscellaneous household items 各種生活用品大減價 She gave me some money to cover any miscellaneous expenses. 她給了我一些零花錢。 The museum houses a miscellaneous collection of iron age artefacts. 博物館收藏了各式各樣的鐵器時代手工制品。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMiscellaneous is used with these nouns:- collection
- expense
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin miscellaneus (from miscellus ‘mixed’, from miscere ‘to mix’) + -ous. In earlier use the word also described a person as ‘having various qualities’.