sundry
IPA: sˈʌndri
noun
- A minor miscellaneous item.
- A food item eaten as an accompaniment to a meal; a side dish; also, such an item eaten on its own as a light meal.
- (chiefly Australia, cricket) Synonym of extra (“a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat”)
adjective
- More than one or two but not very many; a number of, several.
- Of various types, especially when numerous; diverse, varied.
- Consisting of an assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.
- (archaic) Chiefly preceded by a number or an adjective like many: of two or more similar people or things: not the same as other persons or things of the same nature; different, distinct, separate. (Contrast sense 5.2.)
- (obsolete)
- Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one; individual, respective.
- Of a person or thing: not the same as something else; different. (Contrast sense 4.)
- (except Scotland) Not attached or connected to anything else; physically separate.
adverb
- Synonym of asunder (“into separate parts or pieces”)
- (archaic) Placed separately; apart.
- (obsolete) Individually, separately; sundrily.
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Examples of "sundry" in Sentences
- Dickens frequently followed the same method, and in sundry impressive passages his sentences scan faultlessly.
- The underlying kinds of stuff are the * firststuffs*, which link together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest.
- Another consisted of cloth of yellow satin, "garnisshed in sundry places withe small pearles and fringed withe Silke."
- 129 A mere exaggeration of the “Gull-fairs” noted by travellers in sundry islands as Ascension and the rock off Brazilian Santos.
- In my case, for 24 days, it equaled a $600 dollar savings, which bought some great meals, and other in sundry items well appreciated.
- There is a strong possibility that any international force would be led by them, having been so spectacularly successful and humanitarian in sundry African countries.
- It’s got nothing to do with them cutting back the Probation Service, failing to build prison space or leaning on the Judiciary to let all in sundry out because there’s no where to put them!
- Mrs. Evelyn looked, with a partial smile, at the pretty features which the business of eating the strawberries displayed in sundry novel and picturesque points of view, and asked what she meant?
- Now when Marzawan heard the name of Kamar al-Zaman, he knew that this was he whom he had heard spoken of in sundry cities and of whom he came in search, but he feigned ignorance and asked the Wazir, And who is Kamar al-Zaman?
- But for Indonesians to be truly free, they have to also be freed from the yoke of colonial and foreign agents in their Chinese communities, many of the 11 million or so who have aided and abbetted all and sundry from the Japanese in world war 2 to the Dutch and the Americans and yes Singapore in their exploitation of 200 million people they collectively see as inferior and subservient in advancement of their own causes and interests.
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