OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 4562

eclectic

/ɛkˈlɛk.tɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ecléctico
Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship.…
Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic.
disparatado • heterogéneo • heteróclito
Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.