1 having both good and bad qualities or feelings:
The weather has been very mixed recently. * I still have mixed feelings about going to Brazil (= I am not sure what to think). * The play was given a mixed reception by the critics (= some liked it, some did not). * British athletes had mixed fortunes in yesterday's competition.
2 [onlybeforenoun] consisting of different kinds of people, for example, people from different races and cultures:
a mixed community * people of mixed race * a mixed marriage (= between two people of different races or religions)
3 [onlybeforenoun] consisting of different types of the same thing:
a mixed salad
4 [usuallybeforenoun] of or for both males and females:
a mixed school * I'd rather not talk about it in mixed company.
