mixed bag

Questions about mixed bag

What does mixed bag mean?

mixed bag means "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things".

What is another word for mixed bag?

Close synonyms include assortment, mixture, miscellany, miscellanea, variety. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mixed bag a common word?

mixed bag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.