sundry
Meanings
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.)
- Not attached or connected to anything else; physically separate.
- 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.
- Synonym of extra (“a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat”).
- Various people or things; several.
- Synonym of asunder (“into separate parts or pieces”).
- Placed separately; apart.
- Individually, separately; sundrily.
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Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English sondri, sondry, syndry (“individually; occasionally; separately; variously”) [and other forms], from Old English syndriġ (“alone, distinct, separate, single; sundry, various; concerning a single person, own, particular, peculiar, private; exceptional, remarkable, set apart, special; (distributive) one each”) [and other forms], from sundor (“differently; privately; separate, separately”) (from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“alone, isolated; separate”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *senH- (“apart; for oneself; without”)) + -iġ (“suffix forming adjectives”). The English word is analysable as sunder + -y. The noun and pronoun are derived from the adjective. Cognates * Dutch zonderlijk (“separate”) (rare), Dutch afzonderlijk (“separate”) * Low German sunderig (“single; special”) * Middle High German sunderig (“private; separate; special”) * Swedish söndrig (“broken; tattered”)