multifarious
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin multifārius.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌmʌl.tɪˈfɛə.ɹi.əs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmʌl.tɪˈfɛɚ.i.əs/
- Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəs
Adjective
[edit]multifarious (comparative more multifarious, superlative most multifarious)
- Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
- Synonyms: diverse, manifold, various; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous
- 1878, Henry James, An International Episode[1]:
- Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]
- 1943 January and February, “Charles S. Lake”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
- Now, it is our regretful task to record his death on November 19 after a brief illness, and to include in a short article on page 29 some notes on his multifarious activities.
- 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 225c:
- It is divided into parts that are too small and multifarious.
- (law, of lawsuits) In which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder,[1] perhaps as a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, independent parties or matters.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having multiplicity
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References
[edit]- ^ “multifarious”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Your Dictionary, (Can we date this quote?)
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