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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
many-sided, multifaceted
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