Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having great variety; diverse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having great multiplicity; of great diversity or variety; made up of many differing parts.
- In botany and zoology, arranged in many rows or ranks.
- In law (of a pleading in equity), combining in the same bill of complaint distinct and separate claims of distinct natures or affecting different persons not connected therein, which ought to be made the subject of separate suits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
- adjective (Bot.) Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
multiplicity ; having greatdiversity orvariety ; ofvarious kinds ;diversified ; made up of manydiffering parts ;manifold .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having many aspects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit.
Comedy in Literature 2010
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Yesterday's term was multifarious, which is defined as:
Define That Term #10 2006
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Developed first as a multifarious 3D model, this clean and well-suited stairway design brings a heavy touch of modernity to a simple, elegant interior space.
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Perhaps it would be more accurate to call Gravity's Rainbow a "Menippean Satire," as a number of Pynchon scholars have pointed out, but one of the great accomplishments of the novel has been its ability to incorporate other and multifarious literary (and non-literary) forms without sacrificing its own integrity as an identifiable (if omni-directed) literary form in its own right.
Postmodernism 2010
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It seems both more fragile and more important an institution than it ever has been, more multifarious, more invented as it goes along, more necessary.
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The cast just needs to come to life and start distinguishing themselves otherwise they will fade into the background of a weighty, multifarious story that will to easily overpower such bland performances.
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His connections with different musical worlds are multifarious: he's assisted Philip Glass, written a film score for Stephen Daldry and worked with Björk, as well as producing his own gleefully eclectic music which already covers a huge range of genres.
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The cast just needs to come to life and start distinguishing themselves otherwise they will fade into the background of a weighty, multifarious story that will to easily overpower such bland performances.
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Back in the USA, besides the Super Bowl, one weekend highlight is the multifarious celebration marking what would have been Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday.
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The cast just needs to come to life and start distinguishing themselves otherwise they will fade into the background of a weighty, multifarious story that will to easily overpower such bland performances.
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