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Adjective: mixed  mikst
  1. Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
    "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music";
    - assorted, miscellaneous, motley, sundry
     
  2. Involving or composed of different races
    "a mixed neighbourhood";
    - interracial
     
  3. Including both men and women
    "I went to a mixed school"
Verb: mix  miks
  1. Add together different elements
    "The colours mix well";
    - blend, flux, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
     
  2. To bring or combine together or with something else
    "resourcefully he mixed music and dance";
    - mingle, commix [archaic], unify, amalgamate
     
  3. Open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
    "This school is completely mixed";
    - desegregate, integrate
     
  4. Combine (electronic signals)
    "mixing sounds"
     
  5. Add as an additional element or part
    "mix water into the drink";
    - mix in
     
  6. Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
    "mix the cards";
    - shuffle, ruffle

See also: heterogeneous, heterogenous [non-standard], integrated

Type of: add, alter, change, change integrity, combine, compound, manipulate, modify

Antonym: segregate

Encyclopedia: Mixed

Mix, Louisiana