noun
Meaning 1
A mix, blend, or variety.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Next time, let's ask a group with a different mix up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
mix up
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Meaning 2
A confusion or reversal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
Examples
- She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scramble, jumble
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To combine thoroughly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, intransitive
Examples
- All the smells of the food had mixed up together.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
Examples
- She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To confuse or reverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
Examples
- I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.
- I always mix up Jack with Jake.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jumble, addle, baffle, vex, lose, embroil, stick, stump, baffound, bamboozle, bedevil, befuddle, throw, bemud, bemuse, bewilder, bumfuzzle, complicate, confound, confuddle, confuse, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, blind, dumbfound, entangle, ferhoodle, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flurry, fluster, flummox, fuddle, knot, mix up, muddle, muddy, ravel, perplex, puzzle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: often, transitive
Qualifier: usually passive voice
Examples
- He got mixed up with a bad crowd.
- Then he got mixed up with an older woman.
- Now, he's mixed up with some half-baked religion.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: embroil
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To shuffle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- mix up this Rubik's cube
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
cause to be perplexed or confounded
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This problem stumped her
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
verb
Meaning 10
assemble without order or sense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jumble, confuse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
Narrower terms: addle, muddle, puddle
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Polish: mieszać — to mix or blend thoroughly and completely
- Polish: pomieszać — to mix or blend thoroughly and completely
- Polish: zmieszać — to mix or blend thoroughly and completely
- Polish: wymieszać — to mix or blend thoroughly and completely
- Spanish: revolver — to mix or blend thoroughly and completely
- Danish: forveksle — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Japanese: 間違える (machigaeru) — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Polish: mylić — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Polish: pomylić — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Polish: mieszać — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Polish: pomieszać — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Portuguese: confundir — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Portuguese: misturar — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Portuguese: trocar — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Spanish: trabucar — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Spanish: hacerse bolas — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Spanish: hacerse chibolas — to confuse things, to get things mixed up
- Spanish: hacerse un lío — to confuse things, to get things mixed up