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MULTIFARIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does multifarious mean?
• MULTIFARIOUS (adjective)
The adjective MULTIFARIOUS has 1 sense:
1. having many aspects or qualities
Familiarity information: MULTIFARIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having many aspects or qualities
Synonyms:
many-sided; miscellaneous; multifaceted; multifarious
Context example:
a miscellaneous crowd
Similar:
varied (characterized by variety)
Derivation:
multifariousness (noticeable heterogeneity)
Context examples
Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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