sundry

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adjective

sun·​dry ˈsən-drē 

: including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous, various

sundry items/articles

The interior was padded and crammed with little pockets and nets for hatboxes and sundry possessions.

—Graham Robb

Served up with these, were sundry greens, —lichens, mosses, ferns, and fungi.

—Herman Melville

It's not just books on sale anymore—it's CD's, DVD's, greeting cards, stationery, sundry gifts, coffee and baked goods …

—Charles Taylor

… to protect us from colds, broken crockery, and the sundry inconveniences of a royal household.

—Gail Carson Levine

At the same time the populace, reading the news items of his doings and hearing him speak on various and sundry occasions, conceived a great fancy for him.

—Theodore Dreiser

sundry

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pronoun

plural in construction

: an indeterminate number

—usually used in the phrase all and sundry to mean "everyone"

Whenever a crowd gathered, as it did at every stop, we interrogated all and sundry about the events of 1943.

—Samuel Eliot Morison

Cluny lashed out at all and sundry with his tail, foaming at the mouth and cursing wildly …

—Brian Jacques

compare sundries

Examples of sundry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

This won’t stop the market from trading each flash headline about the cadence and scope of tariffs, the breadth of any immigrant deportation plans and sundry deregulatory declarations. —Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025

The city has burned, after all, at various historical flash points — the Watts Riots, the 1992 Uprising, the sundry Malibu fires over the years — and the image has reinscribed itself upon us over and over, as in Ed Ruscha’s legendary 1968 painting The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire. —Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025

And now, with his sundry foes all vanquished, Trump is once again set to place his hand on the Bible and take that solemn oath of office. —Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025

Once upon a time, the accomplished filmmaker Robert Eggers was a serious 9-year-old in small-town Lee, N.H., methodically making his way through his school library’s series on various and sundry monsters. —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English, different for each, from Old English syndrig, from sundor apart — more at sunder

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Pronoun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing sundry

• all and sundry

Kids Definition

sundry

adjective

sun·​dry

ˈsən-drē

: miscellaneous, several, various

for sundry reasons