many-sided

[men-ee-sahy-did]

adjective

1. having many sides.

2. having many aspects.

   a many-sided question.

3. having many interests, qualities, accomplishments, etc.; versatile.

   The typical person of the Renaissance was many-sided.

many-sided

adjective

1. having many sides, aspects, etc

   a many-sided personality

Other Word Forms

• many-sidedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of many-sided¹

First recorded in 1650–60

Example Sentences

The outcomes of attacks and other actions are often decided by rolling many-sided dice.

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For decades, nearly every Colombian’s life has been touched by the country’s many-sided conflict.

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And in doing so, "Yellowjackets" brings awareness to yet another aspect of the many-sided stone that is trauma, and shows the reality of another part of some women's lives.

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“Later accounts tend to fetishize sexual connections,” she writes, but those were “just one facet of a many-sided emotional equation.”

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Yet there was one more fateful roll of the many-sided die.

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