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mixed

/mɪkst/
verb
  1. To stir together.

    "Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until the consistency is smooth."

  2. To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).

    "Don't mix the meat recipes with the dairy recipes."

  3. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.

    "Yellow and blue paint mix to make green."

Synonymsmix together, mix up, muddle, muddle up, blend, combine
adjective
  1. Having two or more separate aspects.

    "I get a very mixed feeling from this puzzling painting."

  2. Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.

    "My joy was somewhat mixed when my partner said she was pregnant: it's a lot of responsibility."

  3. Including both male(s) and female(s).

    "My son attends a mixed school, my daughter an all-girl grammar school."

Synonymsambivalent, conflicted, equivocal, heterogeneous, co-ed, unsegregated
Antonymshomogeneous, unmixed, single-sex, pure, pedigree, pure

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