sundry
pronunciation
How to pronounce sundry in British English:
UK [ˈsʌndri]
How to pronounce sundry in American English:
US [ˈsʌndri]
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- Noun:
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
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- Adjective:
- consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity)
Word Origin
- sundry
- sundry: [OE] Sundry goes back to an Old English syndrig ‘apart, separate’. This, like sunder [OE], is descended ultimately from an Indo-European base *su-, denoting ‘separation’, which also produced Latin sine ‘without’, Welsh hanner ‘half’, and German sondern ‘but’.
- sundry (adj.)
- Old English syndrig "separate, apart, special, various, distinct, characteristic," from sundor "separately, apart, asunder" (see sunder) + -y (2). Compare Old High German suntaric, Swedish söndrig "broken, tattered." Meaning "several" is from 1375. As a noun, from mid-13c. with the sense "various ones." Phrase all and sundry is from late 14c.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Jittery notebook keyboards / track pad / sundry rodents weren 't mentioned at all .
- 2. In particular , the outlook for the palestinians would be less bleak if sundry outsiders did not periodically hijack their cause to mobilise muslim emotions against israel , america or both .
- 3. But instead of measuring cornering forces and suspension movement , they look at wind speed , yaw , rudder angles and sundry other factors that effect the performance of a racing yacht or dinghy .
- 4. Exclude this slug of cash , and sundry other one-off influences , and the budget deficit will fall from 7.7 % of gdp this year to 3.1 % by 2016-17 , leaving it two percentage points of gdp higher than was forecast in march .
- 5. In recent weeks lexington has watched barack obama , mitt romney and sundry sidekicks campaign across six states and at two national conventions .