Meaning of multifarious in English

(Definition of multifarious from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of multifarious

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The enemy is diffuse and multifarious, he said.
Religious traditions are highly complex and multifarious.
It unifies the multifarious forks.
In an outpour of publications, they explored the multifarious facets of the famous episode.
The relationship between language and identity is a complex and multifarious one.
Mitochondria are thus multifarious organelles whose functioning is connected to cellular function via multiple pathways that contribute to disease when dysregulated.
Parties organize citizens’ multifarious concerns into issues, agendas, and platforms, and thereby hone down the list of available solutions to a manageable number.
For this is with good cause: the multifarious relationships between sounds that make for all their different degrees of similarity to each other are not in themselves particularly simple.
The alleged problem for analogical reasoning was that the judge could find any of the multifarious dissimilarities relevant if she wanted to decide contrary to precedent.
It can be argued that the genome only provides a blueprint for the formation of the brain, while the finer details of cognitive development are subject to multifarious environmental influences.
In spite of the multifarious applications of photography, one has yet to take the step of employing it in the opposite direction, namely as a means of temporal diminution.
In other words, is a degree of stereotyping inevitable as creative writers seek to impose some order on the multifarious utterances that speakers are capable of in everyday speech?
It was thought it would continue thus, it was hoped that with time more and more such disease entities would emerge from the multifarious conditions of the mentally ill.
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Translations of multifarious

in Chinese (Traditional)
多種類的,各式各樣的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
多种类的,各式各样的…
in Spanish
variopinto, muy diverso…
in Portuguese
variado, multifacetado…
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