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词汇 multitudinous
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Definition of multitudinous in English:

multitudinous

adjective ˌmʌltɪˈtjuːdɪnəsˌməltəˈt(j)ud(ə)nəs
  • 1Very numerous.

    极多的,众多的

    multitudinous rugs kept us warm

    我们用许多小地毯保暖。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Probing the images by which we construct our world, he has managed to make the multitudinous and chaotic, if not completely comprehensible, then at least approachable.
    • And more than a dozen national parks sprang up throughout Eastern Europe - to mention only a handful of the multitudinous changes that followed the end of the Cold War.
    • In this regard, I can no longer, for example, sit with a poor family hovering along the poverty line without being mindful of the multitudinous ways in which class oppression can fracture the relationships of those affected.
    • This uncertainty and ambiguity attracts people and offers multitudinous aesthetic associations.
    • The variations in our bodies are multitudinous and I find our differences quite glorious!
    • It's riddled with multitudinous cracks and fissures along the crests of ocean ridges - where plate-tectonic action cracks and spreads apart the seafloor.
    • Television may have conveyed the impression that Diana's multitudinous mourners spoke, or rather sobbed, for the whole of Britain.
    • I have nearly no dialogue, too much internal monologue, and multitudinous plot lines dangling all over the place.
    • When one adds the difficulty of gender performativity to the multitudinous difficulties surrounding arguments about ‘race,’ Catherine's dilemma becomes clearer.
    • Though all his films are in Bengali or Hindi, their subtly observed study of multitudinous shades of the human condition ranks them as universal in their appeal and acclaim.
    • The world over it is the same: the feeling of uneasiness for ageing persons, coping with the multitudinous problems of old age.
    • Alongside them sprouted multitudinous single-issue groups, from vegetarian societies to trade unions, women's groups, and colonialist lobbies.
    • I have always known that my America is composed of millions of different people with multitudinous life histories.
    • In higher organisms, structural proteins behave more like Lego blocks that join in multitudinous ways - hence varied organisms with essentially the same ‘gene products.’
    • Before his death in 1989, there were multitudinous awards, ranging from presidential citations to a Carnegie Hall recital celebrating his life's work.
    • When light penetrates the glass they fill the space with multitudinous hues, bright, clear and calm.
    • Next he moved on to the government's multitudinous achievements.
    • As Darwin's theory made clear, these multitudinous forms developed as a result of small changes in offspring and natural selection of those that were better adapted to their environment.
    • Many people would rather take a pill than lose weight, exercise, stop smoking, or perform any of the multitudinous activities that could improve health.
    • And when it does happen, the job is unusual enough to make it stand out from the multitudinous throngs of films of this genre.
    Synonyms
    numerous, many, abundant, profuse, prolific, copious, legion, teeming, multifarious, a thousand and one, innumerable, countless, uncounted, infinite, numberless, unnumbered, untold, incalculable
    informal umpteen
    South African informal lank
    literary divers, myriad
    manifold
    rare innumerous, unnumberable
    1. 1.1 Consisting of or containing many individuals or elements.
      由许多不同成分(或人)组成的,各种各样都有的,形形色色的
      the multitudinous array of chemical substances that exist in the natural world

      存在于自然界中的各种各样的化学物质。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The multitudinous facets of Christmas, that season of hope but also that season of unbearable loneliness for so many of New York's internal exiles, are captured memorably here in Didion's painfully accurate prose.
      • It sounds so wise and fine, but is really too one-dimensional or inapplicable to our multitudinous problems that at best, it temporarily inspires us and then fails to make a difference.
      • When one looks at Nature as a whole, there are multitudinous diversities contained within it, and many wholes that exist within it.
      • A microscopic image of a slug follows these reflections, reinforcing this notion, reminding us that perception is multitudinous and malleable.
      Synonyms
      mixed, varied, variegated, varying, various, miscellaneous, diverse, diversified, eclectic, manifold, multifarious, motley, sundry, heterogeneous, disparate, different, differing, dissimilar
  • 2literary (of a body of water) vast.

    〈诗 / 文〉(水体)浩瀚的,辽阔的

    Synonyms
    inestimable, indeterminable, untold, immeasurable, uncountable, incomputable, not to be reckoned

Derivatives

  • multitudinously

  • adverb
    • The figures of speech (metaphor, metonym, synecdoche, and irony) are the four main categories of tropes, although tropes have been multitudinously identified in treatises on rhetoric.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At least five undergraduate seminars might be devoted to the way in which this phenomenon is variously and multitudinously attacked in Goethe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Freud, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Lawrence and Joyce.
      • Hence the entrepreneur is multitudinously benefited.
      • I know all about these coleoptera, because our great cave, three miles below Hannibal, was multitudinously stocked with them, and often I brought them home to amuse my mother with.
  • multitudinousness

  • noun
    • He loves the sheer multitudinousness of the world.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Great mountains, however bold, are always full of endless fracture and detail, and indicate on the brows and edges of their cliffs, both the multitudinousness, and the deeply wearing continuance, of the force of time, and stream, and tempest.
      • It is this that enables us to know the multitudinousness that the world is.
      • As the years progressed, he appeared to thrive on the multitudinousness of his tasks.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin multitudo (see multitude) + -ous.

Rhymes

platitudinous, pulchritudinous, vicissitudinous

Definition of multitudinous in US English:

multitudinous

adjectiveˌməltəˈt(y)o͞od(ə)nəsˌməltəˈt(j)ud(ə)nəs
  • 1Very numerous.

    极多的,众多的

    the tinkling of multitudinous bells from the herd
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The world over it is the same: the feeling of uneasiness for ageing persons, coping with the multitudinous problems of old age.
    • Alongside them sprouted multitudinous single-issue groups, from vegetarian societies to trade unions, women's groups, and colonialist lobbies.
    • As Darwin's theory made clear, these multitudinous forms developed as a result of small changes in offspring and natural selection of those that were better adapted to their environment.
    • Though all his films are in Bengali or Hindi, their subtly observed study of multitudinous shades of the human condition ranks them as universal in their appeal and acclaim.
    • It's riddled with multitudinous cracks and fissures along the crests of ocean ridges - where plate-tectonic action cracks and spreads apart the seafloor.
    • Many people would rather take a pill than lose weight, exercise, stop smoking, or perform any of the multitudinous activities that could improve health.
    • In higher organisms, structural proteins behave more like Lego blocks that join in multitudinous ways - hence varied organisms with essentially the same ‘gene products.’
    • Before his death in 1989, there were multitudinous awards, ranging from presidential citations to a Carnegie Hall recital celebrating his life's work.
    • And more than a dozen national parks sprang up throughout Eastern Europe - to mention only a handful of the multitudinous changes that followed the end of the Cold War.
    • This uncertainty and ambiguity attracts people and offers multitudinous aesthetic associations.
    • When one adds the difficulty of gender performativity to the multitudinous difficulties surrounding arguments about ‘race,’ Catherine's dilemma becomes clearer.
    • The variations in our bodies are multitudinous and I find our differences quite glorious!
    • Television may have conveyed the impression that Diana's multitudinous mourners spoke, or rather sobbed, for the whole of Britain.
    • I have nearly no dialogue, too much internal monologue, and multitudinous plot lines dangling all over the place.
    • Next he moved on to the government's multitudinous achievements.
    • In this regard, I can no longer, for example, sit with a poor family hovering along the poverty line without being mindful of the multitudinous ways in which class oppression can fracture the relationships of those affected.
    • And when it does happen, the job is unusual enough to make it stand out from the multitudinous throngs of films of this genre.
    • Probing the images by which we construct our world, he has managed to make the multitudinous and chaotic, if not completely comprehensible, then at least approachable.
    • I have always known that my America is composed of millions of different people with multitudinous life histories.
    • When light penetrates the glass they fill the space with multitudinous hues, bright, clear and calm.
    Synonyms
    numerous, many, abundant, profuse, prolific, copious, legion, teeming, multifarious, a thousand and one, innumerable, countless, uncounted, infinite, numberless, unnumbered, untold, incalculable
    1. 1.1 Consisting of or containing many individuals or elements.
      由许多不同成分(或人)组成的,各种各样都有的,形形色色的
      the multitudinous array of chemical substances that exist in the natural world

      存在于自然界中的各种各样的化学物质。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • A microscopic image of a slug follows these reflections, reinforcing this notion, reminding us that perception is multitudinous and malleable.
      • When one looks at Nature as a whole, there are multitudinous diversities contained within it, and many wholes that exist within it.
      • The multitudinous facets of Christmas, that season of hope but also that season of unbearable loneliness for so many of New York's internal exiles, are captured memorably here in Didion's painfully accurate prose.
      • It sounds so wise and fine, but is really too one-dimensional or inapplicable to our multitudinous problems that at best, it temporarily inspires us and then fails to make a difference.
      Synonyms
      mixed, varied, variegated, varying, various, miscellaneous, diverse, diversified, eclectic, manifold, multifarious, motley, sundry, heterogeneous, disparate, different, differing, dissimilar
    2. 1.2literary (of a body of water) vast.
      〈诗 / 文〉(水体)浩瀚的,辽阔的
      Synonyms
      inestimable, indeterminable, untold, immeasurable, uncountable, incomputable, not to be reckoned

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin multitudo (see multitude) + -ous.

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