multi-purpose
multi-purpose is the alternative form of multipurpose.
Meaning of multipurpose
Adjective
multipurpose (not comparable)
- Designed or intended to fit more than one type of function or application; having multiple uses.
- Arguably the most potent version of that meme merges the heatmaps with a multipurpose version of the IQ bell curve, populated with three “wojaks” on the stupid, middlebrow, and supersmart bits of that curve.
The liberal heatmap is paired with the figure in the meaty middle of the graph, while the...2025 March 3, Frank Jacobs and Stephen Johnson, “The story behind the internet’s most viral (and misunderstood) political meme”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025
- Synonyms:
- multiuse
- Arguably the most potent version of that meme merges the heatmaps with a multipurpose version of the IQ bell curve, populated with three “wojaks” on the stupid, middlebrow, and supersmart bits of that curve.
Origin of multi-purpose
From multi- + purpose.
Questions about multi-purpose
- What is multi-purpose the alternative form of?
- Multi-purpose is the alternative form of multipurpose.
Words near multi-purpose in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: multi-purpose (page history and authors); multipurpose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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