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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MULTIFA'RIOUS, a. [L. multifarius.] Having great multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; as multifarious artifice.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin multifarius, from Latin multifariam in many places Date: 1593 having or occurring in great variety ; diverse • multifariousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (foll. by pl. noun) many and various. 2 having great variety. Derivatives: multifariously adv. multifariousness n. Etymology: L multifarius

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe things as multifarious, you mean that they are many in number and of many different kinds. (LITERARY) Spain is a composite of multifarious traditions and people... The reasons for closure are multifarious. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Multiform, manifold, various, divers, diversified, different, of many sorts, of various kinds, of all sorts and kinds.

Moby Thesaurus

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