multifarious
- adjective
- /ˌmʌl.tɪˈfɛr.i.əs/
- Formal
- The festival featured a multifarious array of performances, including dance, music, and theater.
- multifarious purposes
- multifarious nature
Examples
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"If nature and God were somehow capable of speaking to us, the utterances would be multifarious and conflicting."
Academic text (2001) -
Academic freedom, often the object of slogans and multifarious activism, is neither a fixed nor an intuitive concept.
Academic text (2008) -
" Ladies and gentlemen, despite our multifarious interests, we are united on one front."
Fiction book (2001) -
The multifarious aspects of this god are shown by his more than one hundred documented names.
Academic text (1990) -
What sets these individuals apart is their diligence in pursuing professional growth despite the surge of multifarious demands they face in their daily lives.
Academic text (2008) -
Further, the university maintains scores of web pages for its multifarious organizations, suborganizations, and activities.
Academic text (1998) -
Hip Hop's origins are complex and multifarious along racial lines.
Academic text (2016) -
The authors provide many types of evaluation "instruments" to answer the multifarious purposes of the institutional audits.
Academic text (2003) -
We are eternally grateful to you for the fact that you have made a point of ensuring that the the various, the multifarious voices of this House are heard.
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The bridging of the digital divide is critical to the circumvention of the multifarious problems afflicting children around the world.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
Having many different kinds
Containing many different kinds, not all the same
Something that contains different kinds of things like papers or tools
Having many different parts or sides
Having many different parts or sides that make it complex
Having many different parts or aspects
Having many different kinds of things
Having many different parts or qualities
Having many different parts or qualities
Having many parts or features and not simple
Having many different colors
Having many different parts or types
Having many different forms or shapes
A thing that has different kinds of parts
Of many different kinds
Having many possible meanings for different people
Antonyms
How Diverse
Surface Forms
Morphology
multifarious = multi + farious
The prefix multi- suggests 'many', but the remaining element is not a productive English base word, so the meaning is not transparently compositional for most learners.
Etymology
Multifarious looks like it joins multi- ('many') and various ('different kinds'). A helpful way to remember it is that something multifarious has 'many different parts or types'.