Multifarious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of
              the meanest animal.                   --Dr. H. More.
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     2. (Bot.) Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical
        rows.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  multifarious
       adj : having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted
             undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the
             multifarious noise of a great city" [syn: {many-sided},
              {multifaceted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "multifarious":
     Byzantine, allotropic, assorted, at odds, at variance, balled up,
     billion, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, conglomerate,
     considerable, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, convoluted,
     crabbed, daedal, departing, deviating, deviative, devious,
     different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing,
     discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined,
     disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished,
     divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform,
     elaborate, embrangled, entangled, ever so many, fouled up,
     full many, heaped-up, heterogeneous, heteromorphic, heteromorphous,
     implicated, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible,
     incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate,
     inharmonious, intricate, involuted, involved, irreconcilable,
     jillion, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, legion, loused up,
     manifold, many, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up,
     metamorphic, metamorphotic, million, mixed, mixed up, motley,
     mucked up, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex,
     multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, no few, not a few, numerous,
     perplexed, poles apart, poles asunder, polymorphic, polymorphous,
     populous, promiscuous, protean, proteiform, quite some, ramified,
     roundabout, screwed up, separate, separated, several, snarled,
     subtle, sundry, tangled, tangly, thousand, twisted, unconformable,
     unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying,
     very many, voluminous, widely apart, worlds apart, zillion