Multifarious
adjective
To have many different parts, forms, kinds, or aspects.
The multitudinous facets of human expression.
Often appears as...
- multifarious interests
- multifarious facets
adjective
To have many different parts, forms, kinds, or aspects.
The multitudinous facets of human expression.
Often appears as...
- multifarious interests
- multifarious facets
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Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Understand the context to use 'multifarious' correctly; it implies complexity and variety.
Her interests are multifarious, ranging from botany to classical music.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Multifarious' often suggests richness and diversity in a positive light.
The festival celebrated the multifarious cultures of the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Tone
Use 'multifarious' in formal or academic writing to sound more sophisticated.
The scientist studied the multifarious phenomena affecting climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Understand the context to use 'multifarious' correctly; it implies complexity and variety.
Her interests are multifarious, ranging from botany to classical music.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Multifarious' often suggests richness and diversity in a positive light.
The festival celebrated the multifarious cultures of the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Tone
Use 'multifarious' in formal or academic writing to sound more sophisticated.
The scientist studied the multifarious phenomena affecting climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
Understand the context to use 'multifarious' correctly; it implies complexity and variety.
Her interests are multifarious, ranging from botany to classical music.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Multifarious' often suggests richness and diversity in a positive light.
The festival celebrated the multifarious cultures of the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Academic Tone
Use 'multifarious' in formal or academic writing to sound more sophisticated.
The scientist studied the multifarious phenomena affecting climate change.
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Quote examples
Ali Smith
Scottish Writer
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.
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Roy Blount, Jr.
American Writer
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
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Franz Boas
American Scientist
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
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Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.
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Linda Colley
British Historian
Brussels and its multifarious networks provide member states not just with trading access but also a guarantee of regular encounters, negotiations, contacts, informants, and alliances.
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
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Colson Whitehead
American Novelist
The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.
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Ali Smith
Scottish Writer
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.
Quote examples
Roy Blount, Jr.
American Writer
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Quote examples
Franz Boas
American Scientist
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
Quote examples
Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.
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Linda Colley
British Historian
Brussels and its multifarious networks provide member states not just with trading access but also a guarantee of regular encounters, negotiations, contacts, informants, and alliances.
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
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Colson Whitehead
American Novelist
The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.
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