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many-faceted

many-faceted adjective: having many sides or facets; multifaceted.

Adjective

many-faceted (comparative more many-faceted, superlative most many-faceted)

  1. Having many sides or facets; multifaceted.
    Synonyms:
    many-faced
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Having many different aspects or features.
    • Nishida's writings are a prism in which we can see refracted the manifaceted atmosphere of Japanese philosophy in the first half of this century.1993, Nishida Kitaro, Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview
    • The crushing of Africa by means of the regimentation of slavery had the effect of energizing specific local creativity and this has resulted in manifaceted Africanist practices in the New World diasporas.2013, Berndt Ostendorf, New Orleans: Creolization and all that Jazz

Synonyms of many-faceted

Forms of many-faceted

comparativemore many-faceted
superlativemost many-faceted
alternative formmanyfaceted
alternative formmanifaceted

Origin of many-faceted

From many + facet + -ed.

Questions about many-faceted

What does many-faceted mean?
Many-faceted means having many sides or facets; multifaceted.
What part of speech is many-faceted?
Many-faceted is an adjective.

Words near many-faceted in the dictionary

  1. many-bodied
  2. many-body problem
  3. many-coloured
  4. many-eyed
  5. many-faced
  6. many-faceted
  7. many-handed
  8. many-handedly
  9. many-handedness
  10. many-kinded
  11. many-many

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