Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having many sides.
- adjective Having many aspects, talents, or interests.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many sides; hence, figuratively, having many aspects, qualities, or capabilities; of diversified range or scope; not narrowly limited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration.
- adjective Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention; versatile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having many sides;
polygonal - adjective Having many
aspects
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of variety or interest
- adjective having many parts or sides
- adjective having many aspects
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Examples
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And here again we come to another side of many-sided John
Chapter 32 2010
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I imagine that the thought of suicide was something Kim had held up to the light like a many-sided crystal, thought about, toyed with in moments for years.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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Each performance is different, and each, in its different way, yields ultimately to the many-sided power of the score.
A Fierce Enthusiasm Leon Botstein 2010
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In the end we must accept them for what they are: complex and many-sided, ornamented with clues and theories, yet ultimately unknowable like life itself.
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She was so many-sided, so many-mooded — “protean-mooded” I called her.
Chapter 28 2010
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At that point it became suddenly evident that the Novel as such was capable of being regarded as a means of profoundly serious and many-sided discussion and therefore a meduim of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.
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Her prickly self-scrutiny is as many-sided and full of conflict as the country she both defends and criticizes.
Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land" Donna Rifkind 2010
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A many-sided tale of faith and betrayal, drama and intrigue, set in the world of old Edo.
I want them all 2009
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Her prickly self-scrutiny is as many-sided and full of conflict as the country she both defends and criticizes.
Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land" Donna Rifkind 2010
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It becomes the whole life of the woman, while to the man it is rather an episode, rather a mere side to his many-sided life.
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