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multifactional

multifactional adjective: of or pertaining to more than one faction.

Adjective

multifactional (comparative more multifactional, superlative most multifactional)

  1. Of or pertaining to more than one faction.
    • The current situation in Iraq should properly be described as “a multifactional civil war” in which “the government is composed of rival Shia factions” and “they are embattled with an outside Shia group, the Mahdi Army ,” Ira M. Lapidus, a co-author of “Islam, Politics and Social Movements” and a...2008 April 19, Michael Cooper, “McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’”, in New York Times

Forms of multifactional

comparativemore multifactional
superlativemost multifactional

Origin of multifactional

From multi- + factional.

Questions about multifactional

What does multifactional mean?
Multifactional means of or pertaining to more than one faction.
What part of speech is multifactional?
Multifactional is an adjective.

Words near multifactional in the dictionary

  1. multifacetedly
  2. multifacetedness
  3. multifacial
  4. multifacility
  5. multifaction
  6. multifactional
  7. multifactor
  8. multifactoral
  9. multifactored
  10. multifactorial
  11. multifactoriality

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