multifarious
/ˌmʌltɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/
multifarious adjective: having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
Adjective
multifarious (comparative more multifarious, superlative most multifarious)
- Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
- Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]1878, Henry James, An International Episode
- Now, it is our regretful task to record his death on November 19 after a brief illness, and to include in a short article on page 29 some notes on his multifarious activities.1943 January and February, “Charles S. Lake”, in Railway Magazine, page 1
- Synonyms:
- diverse, manifold, various, catholic, dishomogeneous, diversified, eclectic, heterogeneous, liberal, miscellaneous
- In which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder, perhaps as a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, independent parties or matters.
multifarious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
multifarious in Tamil
- பலதிரப்பட்ட, பலவகைப்பட்ட, பல்வேறு வகைப்பட்ட
multifarious in Urdu
- رنگ برنگ, طرح طرح کی
multifarious in Bengali
- বহুবিধ, বিচিত্র, নানা প্রকার
multifarious in Malayalam
- diverse, various, many
- അത്യധികം വെെവിധ്യമുള്ള, ബഹുമുഖമായ, ബഹുമുഖവും ബഹുതലസ്പർശിയുമായ, സർവ്വതലസ്പർശിയായ, ബഹുരൂപം, പലതരം
More languagesFewer languages
- multifarious in Kannada
- ನಾನಾಬಗೆಯ, ನಾನಾರೀತಿಯ, ಬಹುವಿಧದ, ಬಗೆಬಗೆಯ
- multifarious in Arabic
- مُتَعَدِّد mutaʕaddid, مُتَنَوِّع mutanawwiʕ
Synonyms of multifarious
Forms of multifarious
| comparative | more multifarious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most multifarious |
Origin of multifarious
From Latin multifārius.
Words formed from multifarious
Words that rhyme with multifarious
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- librarius
- malarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
- octonarius
Questions about multifarious
- What does multifarious mean?
- Multifarious means having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
- What is multifarious in Tamil?
- Multifarious in Tamil is பலதிரப்பட்ட, பலவகைப்பட்ட, பல்வேறு வகைப்பட்ட. See Multifarious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is multifarious?
- Multifarious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce multifarious?
- Multifarious is pronounced /ˌmʌltɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).
Words near multifarious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: multifarious (page history and authors); multifarious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); multifarious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); multifarious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); multifarious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); multifarious (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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