consisting of many different kinds of things that are not connected and do not easily form a group synonym diverse, various混杂的;各种各样的 a sale of miscellaneous household items 各种生活用品大减价 She gave me some money to cover any miscellaneous expenses. 她给了我一些零花钱。 The museum houses a miscellaneous collection of iron age artefacts. 博物馆收藏了各式各样的铁器时代手工制品。
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’.