Consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature:
— The population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous.

synonym: heterogenous.

Roget 10: irrelative^†, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.    not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable etc. 83.    irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes [Fr.]; aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point; misplaced etc. (intrusive) 24; traveling out of the record.    remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant^†.    multifarious; discordant etc. 24.    incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.    ... show more

Roget 15: differing etc. v.; different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform etc. 81; daedal^†.    other, another, not the same; unequal etc. 28.    unmatched; widely apart, poles apart, distinctive; characteristic, discriminative, distinguishing.    incommensurable, incommensurate.    ... show more

Roget 41: mixed etc. v.; implex^†, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley etc. (variegated) 440; miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible.    ... show more

Roget 81: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous^†, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform^†; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of, of every description, of all sorts and kinds, et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; and what not;? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis [Lat.].    jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched, unrelated, nonuniform.    omniform^†, omnigenous^†, omnifarious^†; protean (form) 240.    ... show more

Roget 83: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^†; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.    unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful etc. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized^†.    heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal^†; asymmetric etc. 243; adelomorphous^†, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous^†.    qualified etc. 469.    singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.    newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.    ... show more

Originating outside the body.

synonym: heterogenous.