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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Maybe life is too multitudinous for any one novel to capture its spirit, he muses, and “perhaps ten novels from ten different cultural perspectives are required now.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023
And another worry: If the data does make it into the mainstream, will consumers simply tune it out — just as many do with California’s multitudinous cancer warning signs?
From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2023
Because they think they are white, however vociferous they may be and however multitudinous, they are as speechless as Lot's wife— looking backward, changed into a pillar of salt.
From Salon • May 5, 2023
In talking to people, it’s something that they had a feeling might align with their values, and those values can be multitudinous, like environmental values, but also just taking time, doing something a little new.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2022
There was silence, except for the multitudinous murmur of the bees.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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