mixed

Meanings

Verb

• Past of mix

Adjective

• Having two or more separate aspects.
• Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
• Including both male(s) and female(s).
• Stemming from two or more races or breeds

Related

Similar words

• impure
• co-ed, unsegregated
• hybrid, mongrel

Opposite words

• pure
• single-sex
• pedigree, pure, pureblooded, purebred

Origin

• From mix, equivalent to mix + -ed. Compare Middle English mixid ("mixed"), Old English miscode ("mixed"). More at mix.
• In adjectival use, reinforced by French mixte and/or Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō, from the same Indo-European root as mix.