MULTIFARIOUS DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
multifarious adj 1: having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious noise of a great city"; "a miscellaneous crowd" [syn: many-sided, multifaceted, miscellaneous, multifarious] multifarious 1593, from L. multifarius "manifold," from multifariam "in many places or parts," from multi- "many" + -fariam "parts." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) multifarious adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin multifarius, from Latin multifariam in many places Date: 1593 having or occurring in great variety ; diverse • multifariousness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary multifarious ˌmʌltɪˈfɛərɪəs adj. 1 (foll. by pl. noun) many and various. 2 having great variety. øømultifariously adv. multifariousness n. [L multifarius] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Multifarious \Mul`ti*fa"ri*ous\, a. [L. multifarius; multus much, many. Cf. Bifarious.] 1. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal. --Dr. H. More. 2. (Bot.) Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms multifarious a. Multiform, manifold, various, divers, diversified, different, of many sorts, of various kinds, of all sorts and kinds. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 134 Moby Thesaurus words for "multifarious": Byzantine, allotropic, assorted, at odds, at variance, balled up, billion, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, conglomerate, considerable, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, convoluted, crabbed, daedal, departing, deviating, deviative, devious, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, ever so many, fouled up, full many, heaped-up, heterogeneous, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, implicated, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate, inharmonious, intricate, involuted, involved, irreconcilable, jillion, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, legion, loused up, manifold, many, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, metamorphic, metamorphotic, million, mixed, mixed up, motley, mucked up, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, no few, not a few, numerous, perplexed, poles apart, poles asunder, polymorphic, polymorphous, populous, promiscuous, protean, proteiform, quite some, ramified, roundabout, screwed up, separate, separated, several, snarled, subtle, sundry, tangled, tangly, thousand, twisted, unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, very many, voluminous, widely apart, worlds apart, zillion |
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