many-sided
Americanadjective
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having many sides.
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having many aspects.
a many-sided question.
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having many interests, qualities, accomplishments, etc.; versatile.
The typical person of the Renaissance was many-sided.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of many-sided
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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While some criticized the performer on social media for his actions, many sided with Lacy and argued that concertgoers should know better than to throw things at musicians while they are performing.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022
That discovery led to his finding that borane molecules were polyhedral, or many sided, and to a new understanding of how a host of new chemical compounds could be constructed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intellectually "as many sided as music itself," Pierre Monteux successfully fulfilled the gigantic task of giving all that is, has been and will be classic in music, in this generation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conrad the Red hurried from Italy and joined the rebels; in Swabia, in Bavaria, in Franconia and even in Saxony, the native land of the king, many sided with them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
By such arguments, which were also his real opinions, Cato, all but by force, brought Domitius to the Forum, and many sided with them.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey
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