multitudinous
Americanadjective
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forming a multitude or great number; existing, occurring, or present in great numbers; very numerous.
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comprising many items, parts, or elements.
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Archaic. crowded or thronged.
adjective
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very numerous
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rare great in extent, variety, etc
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poetic crowded
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Etymology
Origin of multitudinous
First recorded in 1600–25; < Latin multitūdin- (stem of multitūdō ) multitude + -ous
Explanation
Anything multitudinous is countless, infinite, innumerable, and, myriad: you couldn't count it if you tried. This is a fancy way to describe more than a whole lot of something — so many, in fact, that you could never count them all. There are multitudinous atoms in your body, multitudinous drops in the ocean, and multitudinous grains of sand on the beach. The number of books in the library isn't multitudinous, even though it would take forever to count them all. Save multitudinous for things that are so amazingly numerous that counting is useless.
Vocabulary lists containing multitudinous
Lord of the Flies
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act II
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Example Sentences
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Multitudinous affairs of this kind kept the President from many other activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Izanagi next spoke to Susa no O the Ruler of the Moon, and said, "Rule thou over the new-born Earth and the blue Waste of the Sea, with its Multitudinous Salt Waters."
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
Learn men, Clarian, and then you will come to know man,—the surest way, I take it, of knowing the Multitudinous God.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
Multitudinous as man is, all his totality of individuals is as nothing in comparison with the inconceivable vastness of numbers of the micro-organisms.
From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack
Multitudinous but not multiplex, in him odd and apparently incongruous notions dwelt peaceably together.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
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